For over three decades, Hanoch Piven has been creating three-dimensional assemblages from readymade objects, which he arranges into a new syntax, offering a multi-layered reading and a stylistic language unmistakably his own, blending playfulness, vibrant color, and humor with a sharp critical eye and an open invitation to dialogue with

the viewer.

This solo exhibition traces the various threads running through Piven's practice: portraits of political figures, cultural icons, and intellectuals, originally created for magazine covers, feature articles, columns, and books, published across leading platforms in Israel and abroad (Time Magazine, New York magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Newsweek, Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, Maariv, etc.); original portraits; preparatory studies revealing his creative process; and popular children's books he created and illustrated.

These are supplemented by screenings of selected programs he developed and recorded for Israeli Educational Television. The exhibition concludes with open activity zones, inviting visitors to engage in hands-on activities in the spirit of Piven's practice.

The exhibition's title, ReForm, encapsulates both the essence of the artistic act and its inherent potential for transformation and rectification. Piven invites the viewer—as well as himself as an artist—to let go of familiar patterns, attune to conditioned frameworks of thought, question them, and reflect an alternative narrative to the official one, as a first step toward deeper understanding of reality.

A phrase often invoked by Piven—"To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees"—welcomes visitors as a guiding motto. Inspired by a reflection from French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry in a text on Edgar Degas' dancer paintings, it expresses the longing to break free from conventional, language-bound modes of representation that constrain our unmediated perception of reality. The exhibition frames the continuity of creation and presentation as a form of quiet resistance—a refusal to succumb to despair and a call to remain attentive to the pressing challenges of our time.

Visitors are invited to experiment in reflexive exhibition spaces that function as arena for observation, questioning, attentiveness, and vibrant creative action.