Ben-David fuses fables from his childhood in metaphorical juxtapositions of western logic and eastern mysticism. Since the early 1980s, the traditional link between science and alchemy, magic and humour, is embraced in the capacity of Ben-David's characters to seemingly defy sense and gravity, challenging accepted genres of phenomenological belief. The artist himself has a remarkable talent as a magician, performing simple tricks with whatever materials are at hand.


In the best manifestations of magic, people and objects vanish into thin air, becoming incorporeal and invisible. Air and weightlessness have always been integral components of Ben-David's work, the invisible forces of gravity and flight informing improbable compositions of imaginative delight.

Earlier sculptures featured acrobatic stunts by whimsical humans and animals who made witty inversions of space and gravity in their endeavours to connect either with each other or with a timeless world beyond visual articulation.

Felicity Fenner, Evolution and Theory - Zadok Ben-David, 1999.
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