Topsy turvy

In "Topsy Turvy", Boris Katz presented a work that embodies a delicate tension between safety and danger, stillness and threat. A small, pale figure sits calmly within a boat — or so it seems. From another perspective, the vessel is revealed as the open beak of a towering bird, its glowing eye watching silently. This duality invites the viewer to shift perspectives, to question what is real and what is imagined, and to confront the thin line between comfort and vulnerability. As with much of Katz’s work, the piece holds a quiet psychological charge — disarming in its simplicity and profound in its ambiguity.
The exhibition was curated by Irena Gordon and presented at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center in Tel Aviv in 2017.