'It’s Fact-Checked!': A New Exhibition at the Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod

In the new exhibition at the Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, 'It’s Fact-Checked!', artists Igor Kaplunovich and Pavel Tsenbakht seek to answer the question: what grants a finding its status as truth? Is it the object itself, or the institution that provides it with interpretation and validity?

The two artists transform the museum into an absurd and ironic space cast in doubt. They construct an archaeological display of a humanity that never existed, thereby creating a fictional past that contains real traces as historical facts.

The authoritative museum promise in the exhibition title, "It’s Fact-Checked!", does not seek to confirm truth, but rather to expose the mechanisms through which truth is validated. The remains on display—broken vessels, skulls, ritual objects, and evidence of ceremonies whose meaning has been lost—offer an archaeological story of an imagined future.

Viewers are invited to observe a body of work that is a hybrid of physical craftsmanship based on ancient classical traditions and images generated by Artificial Intelligence. Under a pseudo-scientific guise—which essentially addresses fundamental questions about human nature, life and death, and the future of humanity—a culture is presented that views the human body as raw material for constant change, seeking to preserve, refine, or transcend it through technology.

In a place where everything seems "fact-checked," the artists present, against the backdrop of contemporary progress, a museum creation that blurs the boundaries between finding and invention, between restoration and simulation, and between memory and fiction. It is precisely here that we are called to re-examine the relationship between knowledge, authority, and belief; to ask once more: how is truth shaped in an age where authority is undermined and is not always found in the findings themselves, but in verification mechanisms whose validity is questioned and no longer taken for granted.

Opening: Saturday, July 25, 2026, at 12:30

July 25, 2026 – August 23, 2026

Janco-Dada Museum Opening Hours: Saturdays, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Admission: 34 NIS for adults; 17 NIS for senior citizens, children, soldiers, and students.

Janco-Dada Museum,

Ein Hod Artists' Village,

D.N. Hof HaCarmel 30890.

Tel: 04-9842350

https://www.jancodada.co.il/