David Behar Perahia

His work examines the interplay between art and action, as well as the concepts of “place” and “public space”, with references to cultural, social, historical and environmental contexts. David lives and works in Tuscany where he founded the Studio Alter’azioni – Commoning Arte e Cultura, Florence, which focuses on collective and commoning actions. Beginning in 2008, David has been working in a participatory manner with communities within diverse cultural contexts. Since 2012 David has been reflecting on the context of the Israeli-Palestine reality, through art projects and academic research, founding the MUNDI_Lab (Urban Design Interventions Lab) in 2016, where he researched the issues of Surveillance, Gentrification and Urban Memory in the shared public space of the city of Haifa. His work has been presented internationally and he has created site-specific projects in the UK, Greece, Poland, Israel, France, Italy (including the 53rd Venice Biennale), Brazil, and Germany.