Mon 21 February 2022 | 7:30 pm - 11:59 pm
Beit Kandinof - Hatzofim 14, Tel Aviv,
Join us to a festive opening of the exhibition Me, “that obscure object of desire”. Each room one artist. They invite you to submerge in a game of self-searching. An obsessive, fascinating, delicate, sometimes grotesque and humoristic, study of the selves
Karam Natour, Maayan Weistub, Shay Alfai, Joy Bernard, Amit Gavish, Gil Kormus, Adi Shafram, Oren Fischer.
Curated by Malu Zayon
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And when Narcissus approached that pool, fresh and self-absorbed, what did he see? Why did his reflection cause such an impact and move him to the core? Unable to resist submerging himself and desperately looking for that self, in love, scared perhaps, stunned.
What do I see when I look at myself, tell me, Mirror, mirror on the wall?!
According to historians of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, if the Spaniards had offered mirrors to the indigenous people, it would have been unnecessary to take their gold by force. The mere fascination with this “magical” invention would have been enough to obtain all their fortune.
The phenomenon of seeing, recognizing, and studying oneself is long and fascinating, as is its history and evolution in the genre of self-portraiture – from painters who included themselves in commissioned portraits of members of the court as a way of signing their works, through Renaissance self-portraits placing the painter at the center as the sole object of study, to self-portraits as iconic as those of Durer or da Vinci, to the more subjective depictions of Caravaggio as Holofernes decapitated by Judith.
And although today we have photography, selfies, video, and VR, there remains an archaic DNA in the artist to create his or her self-portrait, an obsession and voyeurism on the part of the audience in seeing how the artist represents him or herself, in identifying with the creator for those seconds of immersion in the other, with their most intimate organs and thoughts.
Imagine we were one of the actresses that Luis Buñuel arbitrarily changes between one scene and another in his film That Obscure Object of Desire. The viewer does not even notice, or actively ignores and immerses him or herself in that erotic game of identities.
The exhibition Me, “that obscure object of desire” invites you to submerge in a game of self-searching. An obsessive, fascinating, delicate, sometimes grotesque and humoristic, study of the selves of eight young artists: Karam Natour, Maayan Weistub, Shay Alfai, Joy Bernard, Amit Gavish, Gil Kormus, Adi Shafram, Oren Fischer.
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