The exhibition Taking in the View at Ticho House reexamines Anna Ticho’s celebrated depictions of Jerusalem’s landscapes by placing them in dialogue with five contemporary artists. Curated by Gilad Reich and Timna Seligman, the show pairs Ticho’s romantic watercolors with newly acquired works that challenge, reinterpret, and deconstruct traditional ways of seeing nature. The aim is to connect Ticho’s legacy with twenty first century artistic practices and engage younger audiences.

Among the featured artists, Raphael Y. Herman presents long exposure photographs taken overnight in complete darkness, revealing unexpected details shaped by ambient light. Noa Ben-Nun Melamed digitally alters landscapes until they hover between real and imagined, while Ora Lev uses a camera-less photogram process to create luminous, inverted images of flowers that resemble scientific studies. Dorian Gottlieb contributes a moving train window video evoking the Jerusalem hills, and Ella Littwitz offers a reflective sculptural work inspired by the biblical figure of Lot’s wife.

A surprising element of the exhibition is a selection of small photographs taken by Ticho herself in the nineteen seventies. Stark and conceptual in tone, they contrast sharply with her paintings and reveal a lesser known dimension of her creative process. Together, the historical and contemporary works invite viewers to reconsider familiar landscapes and reflect on how perception shapes artistic expression.