Yael Bartana | in The Bakery: the exhibitions continues in the

The Bakery shows Bartana's video work A Declaration (2006). The film pictures a man rowing at sea and arriving at a rock where he replaces the proudly waving Israeli flag by a young olive tree. This action takes place at Andromeda's Rock, a rock in the Mediterranean in front of Jaffa's harbour. The protagonist shows similarities with the first Israeli pioneers from the propaganda films, strong and muscular, dressed in a white shirt and ready to toil the land. Only this time the pioneer is presented to denationalise the country. One of the questions that A Declaration asks is: what effect will it have when one national symbol is replaced by another?