Der Auszug aus dem Haus des Seins

Der Auszug aus dem Haus des Seins is from a series I painted about the connection between two thinker is that influenced me a lot: the German philosopher Heidegger and the Jewish mystic Rabbi Nahman.
I felt that they share something. They share the space within which truth seeking is possible. And specifically, that space, for both of them, is a space of emptiness. And at the same time, they share an interest in language. For Heidegger, it's very obvious. He tried to rewrite German language in order to be able to express his philosophy. That is why reading some of his texts is just nerve wrecking. In the case of Rabbi Nachman, it's a bit more vague. But he as well put an emphasis on the way we relate to language. And both of them aim at transcending language in order to seek deeper understanding of our reality.
The title of the work refers to Heidegger’s idea of language as “das Haus des Seins”, “the house of being”, kind of the space within which existence is made possible. And in our case, in the work behind us, “the departure from the house of Being”, refers specifically to transcending language as a limiting structure.