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The Wohl Synagogue, floor -3
sukkah pays homage to the Jewish ghetto of Venice, the first in the world. De Waal exhibited the work in one of the Venetian synagogues, in the framework of an art initiative that he dedicated to exile and immigration. sukkah is made up of nine transparent boxes, reminiscent of the high buildings in the ghetto. Each box contains characteristic materials of Venetian architecture. A sense of fragility and decline from greatness into ruin emerges from the work. It suggests the transience of exile, and evokes the shelters (sukkot) that the Children of Israel erected in the desert as way-stations on the long odyssey that followed their hasty exodus from Egypt. Another work by de Waal is located on the entrance floor of the library.