Haimi Fenichel, Sally Krystal Kramberg, Dina Berman Maykon, Dalia Meiri, Joshua Borkovsky, David Morris, Ziv Tsfati, Daniela Yaniv Richter, Amnon Israeli, Erez Israeli, Ron Chen, Edna Oliver Fridman, Kees Viser, Tal R, Maya Muchavsky Parnas, Meair Franco, Orit Adar Bachar
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In that Empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a province. In time, those unconscionable maps on longer satisfied, and the cartographers guilds struck a map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following generations, who were not so fond of the study of cartography as the forebears had been, saw that the vast map was useless, and not without some pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the inclemencies of sun and winters. In the deserts of the West, still today, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in all the land there is no other relic of the disciplines of geography.
Purportedly from Suarez Miranda, Travels of Prudent Men, Book Four CH XLV, Lerida 1658
(Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, Translation: Andrew Hurley)
There are small intimate qualities created out of necessity to distill and refine anything that runs on a small scale. These objects may contain complex worlds, powerful in their size, without extraneous noise; It may even be a sharp essence. To diminish allows to load weight and spread unimaginable spaces. In a world where we live with simulation and reduction of reality, it is interesting to see how diminution as an act that is not compression (as in photography) creates an original and special world, disconnected from the large object that is the reference, and becomes an original manifestation with a unique language.
Works selected for the exhibition were made by the artist in the isolation of his studio, without the intervention of production specialists and monumental amplification technology; things that create density and not dispersion, that fascinate the viewer because of their details, the sensitivity of the material, the narrative and the inherent surprises within.
Like a paraphrase in Edmund de Wall’s book “The Hare with the Amber Eyes”: At the base of things in connection with daily life even routine daily life can be at times exotic. They can be sensual and spectacular but not grand like the Marie Antoinette chest or museum display cabinets. It is not Rembrandt nor the Parthenon but not an expression of lack of ambition. They were meant to be touched and reaching out for them is a moment of temptation.
קיס וויסר ומאיר פרנקו. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Kees Viser and Meair Franco. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
עדנה אוליבר פרידמן. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Edna Oliver Fridman. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
ארז ישראלי. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Erez Israeli. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
יהושוע בורקובסקי. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Joshua Borkovsky. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דויד מוריס. צילום: שי בן אפרים | David Morris. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
זיו צפתי. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Ziv Tsfati. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
אורית אדר בכר. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Orit Adar Bachar. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דינה ברמן מייקון. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Dina Berman Maikon. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דינה ברמן מייקון. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Dina Berman Maikon. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דליה מאירי. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Dalia Meiri. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
אמנון ישראלי. צילום: שי בן אפרים |Amnon Israeli. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דויד מוריס. צילום: שי בן אפרים | David Morris. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
חיימי פניכל. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Haimi Fenical. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
דניאלה יניב ריכטר. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Daniela Yaniv Richter. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
מיה מוצ'בסקי פרנס. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Maya Muchavsky Parnas. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
סלי קריסטל קרמברג. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Sally Krystal Kramberg. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
חיימי פניכל. צילום: שי בן אפרים | Haimi Fenical. Photography: Shay Ben Efraim
