The Ramat Hanadiv Gardens were designed by landscape architect Shlomo Oren Weinberg, and extend across approximately 17 acres of meticulously planned and carefully tended landscape. Surrounding the tomb of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the gardens evoke the fragility of life through an abundance of beauty and bloom that is both serene and consoling.

Here and there, among the garden paths, more untamed corners lie hidden – pockets of thickets that recall the wolves in Yehuda Amichai’s poem The Mayor, which “come to howl at the dogs that have become the servants of humankind”. These spaces offer a glimpse of something less cultivated and more spontaneous, closer in character to the woodland and wild landscape of the nature park that surrounds the gardens at Ramat Hanadiv.

For these shrub-filled spaces, we brought together works by five artists. Three of them — Yaakov Dorchin’s Shelter, Moshe Roas’s Relevé (Marom), and Eden Bannet’s Road Fossil, were newly commissioned as a response to the experience of encountering art within the thickets. Works by Zohar Gotesman and Dov Feigin (who passed away in 2000) are on loan for the duration of the exhibition, extending its dialogue and enriching the relationships between sculpture, vegetation, and place.