Israelis experience Palestinian home life in virtual reality

'The under-layer is very tragic,' says artist whose living rooms expose deep divide

An art exhibition in Jerusalem that gives Israelis the chance to experience a Palestinian family's living room - by wearing virtual reality goggles - has laid bare the entrenched separation of two societies that live side by side but, increasingly, worlds apart.

The Israel Museum, where the exhibition is being held, is less than two miles from Arab neighbourhoods in Jerusalem where thousands of Palestinians live. And it is only six miles from the West Bank village where the family who agreed to be filmed for the project live.