Responding to the curatorial theme "Match Point" for Jerusalem Design Week, the installation The Pit transforms a courtyard into a fractured, distorted basketball court to challenge the illusion of stability in our physical and social foundations. By introducing an artificial topography of inclines, fragmented depressions, and white court lines bending across shifting planes, the temporary timber structure radically alters how visitors move through the space. It forces a realization that the shared rules and stable ground we once relied on have dissolved, turning a predictable sports field into an unpredictable, unsettling territory.

Beneath the surface distortion lies a deeper commentary on contemporary reality, anchored by a live digital scoreboard tracking a symbolic matchup between "Home" and "Away" teams. Instead of game stats, the screen displays real-time international news headlines, causing the score to constantly shift based on global events and ongoing real-life conflicts. This fusion of physical instability and volatile data keeps visitors in perpetual friction with the outside world, asking at what point we finally notice that the systems supporting us have vanished.

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