Photo Op

"..The images in the exhibition are vestiges of the use of photographic materials, attesting to the manipulations effected on them. The images present and represent these very actions and call for a discussion of a new aesthetics. The terminology of these aesthetics assimilates the tension between raw materiality and virtual digitization, and reflects the dramatic change at the very essence of the medium, whose definition originated in image and likeness but now extends over the wide-ranging space between analogue and digital photography. The images are created in surprising and fascinating techniques derived from a pure inquiry into the medium’s elements and resulting from a rich and varied use of its materials and tools while ignoring the world and its stimuli.." (From a text, based on our conversation, by Nili Goren, former photography curator of the Tel Aviv museum of art)