Hilla Toony Navok’s ‘Rounding Up The Hours’ accompanied her exhibition at The CCA in Tel Aviv in 2015. Her work tracks high modernism and abstraction in popular Israeli consumer products in a practice based on familiar yet fantastical or dysfunctional constructs. For the exhibition Navok created a large-scale kinetic installation in the form an active work site, devoid of human presence, yet bustling with raw materials and aluminum rods heaped together, ‘working.’ The work questions the connections between labor and creation, the role of design in the consumer production process, and the assimilation of the history of modernism in contemporary consumer culture.
