Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall – HUH!  -Mos Def, “Hip Hop” (1999)

Visiting the vivid Nu Age Hustle exhibition at Momenta Art resembles internet browsing with a visceral twist to it. Like the frenetic and associative space of the internet, the fragmented, colorful and eclectic videos, installations and drawings in this group show vary widely in tone, subject matter and media.

In one corner, Tobaron Waxman’s rigorous and provocative installation Lechem Oni / Prusa, which means “the bread of poverty” in Hebrew, includes a pile of 400 glycerin and goat’s milk bars. Made in a durational performance, each soap bar encases a piece of handmade Matzah baked by the artist in a Chassidic Matzah factory. Assembled in piles, the soap bars conjure images from concentration camps, with strong allusions to Jewish bodies, aiming to convey the artist’s notion that the Holocaust is hijacked as a means to bias opinion in Israeli politics.