Blackout Protocol is a site-specific installation for Jerusalem Design Week 2023, responding to the curatorial theme Lies and Falsehoods through architecture, illusion, and perception.

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Installed at the historic Hansen House, the project investigates the nature of the lie as a manipulative force — one that distorts, hides, and reveals simultaneously. Lies, like shadows, are rarely absolute. They twist around fragments of truth, simplifying complex realities into singular perspectives. The installation casts a black, fragmented “X” across the façade and grounds of Hansen House — a three-dimensional shadow composed of dispersed black planes. From a distance, it appears as a unified mark suspended in space. But as visitors move through the site, the illusion falls apart, revealing a scattered accumulation of parts. Blackout Protocol operates like the lie itself: visible only from a certain angle, seductive in its clarity, but fundamentally unstable. It becomes a spatial metaphor for the distortion of truth — a temporary anti-spotlight that haunts its context and narrows the field of vision.