Ilit Azoulay
100 x 49 cm
39 5/16 x 19 4/16 in
"RANKALA says: information does not exist only in words.
It is also written in stone, in sand, and in clay, a living system of memory always forming, always changing."
This work connects ancient vessels crafted by human hands, fragmentary human images buried and rediscovered, and a planetary landscape shaped continuously by wind.
Two Egyptian ceramic jars from the Predynastic and New Kingdom periods were created to contain drink—often wine used in ritual celebrations. These vessels are not merely utilitarian objects but also traces of social life, ritual practice, and moments of communal gathering.
Beside them appears a Roman marble head of a young woman from the second century CE. Though only a fragment survives, the face still carries an individualized expression—memory preserved in stone across centuries.
A nineteenth-century photograph shows the sculptures Calf-Bearer and Kritios Boy shortly after their rediscovery on the Athenian Acropolis. Buried for centuries after the Persian destruction of the site, they saw sunlight again for the first time in more than a millennium.
