The installation was constructed in a shaft on the ceiling, which goes all the way up to the floor above (about 3 meters high). The movie of a flood is screened on two screens: on a half-transparent screen and through it onto another screen stretch one meter above it, (at the top on the shaft), in order to multiply the image and to intensify the rainy effect.

“In her piece, “Laila” (Night), Michal Rothschild is creating an almost Zen-like focusing , a short meditative attention to the flow and sound of the water. A direct observation and capture of movements and lights that are reflected or contained within the water. In a certain moment – an event is happening – two cars are cruising along. A distortion is created, in sound and light. The noise is slow and faint – like a plane ready to take off. The perception is of something more then the car, that had already passed, is lingering, something that arrived before and stays after. We are ejected from within the illusion of nature into the reality of urban space, the imagined possibilities are reduced and the concentration is breached”.

(text by Yael Amit)