Exhibition & Projects

“Tikotin Museum of Japanese Arts” Haifa, Israel

Curated by Dr. Etty Glass Gissis

Printed by “The Print House”

"Light on Skin" is a visual meditation on five years of life in Japan. It is A collection of moments, spaces, and people with whom I shared deep, personal connections. These images explore the textures of intimacy and the "from foreign to local" of a life lived through a lens, featuring those I have loved and the places that became home.

The Installation

The exhibition is designed to play with scale and the physical act of "looking."

Thirty of the works are framed prints ranging from standard 40x60cm sizes to immersive, large-scale pieces measuring 230x160cm.

These large formats are paired with four 35mm film viewers suspended from the ceiling. By leaning into these hanging viewers, the audience is invited to leave the gallery space behind and engage in a private, one-on-one encounter with the film—replicating the quiet intimacy of the moment the photograph was first taken.

An art gallery with a wall-mounted description, three small hanging speakers, a black and white photograph of a person sitting next to a plant, and two illuminated cube-shaped floor lamps.
museum exhibition of Michael Sela with framed black-and-white photographs on white walls, illuminated by four soft white lamps on the light wood floor, with wooden benches in the foreground.
Japanese Museum with four black and white photographs on the walls and four illuminated white cube seats on the wooden floor.
A black-and-white photograph features three framed pictures on a white wall. The left frame contains the silhouette of a person sitting on a ledge, extending their arm forward. The right frame shows two birds perched on a string, with a clear sky in the background.
A man with a beard and mustache, wearing a light-colored T-shirt, holding a small film viewer to his eyes, with his eyes focused on the picture inside and a content expression, in front of a plain wall.
A person with their back to the camera is standing in an art gallery, looking at a blank wall with three small hanging objects or lights casting shadows. The gallery has a modern ceiling with track lighting, wooden floors, and framed photos on adjacent walls.