Hazira, Jerusalem, 2002. Curator: Hadas Ophrat
Modern Lovers Exhibition, Three Colts Gallery – London | Curators: Pil and Galia Kollectiv
In the installation were exposed 80 works made of fax paper (thermal paper), which nature will lead them to disappear. Different series of works (maps, citizens, portraits, towns and objects) are exposed, all of which went through a process of “faximilisation”. This technique of manipulation of the picture passing through the fax, thus creating a new image, permits to blur the border between the original and the copy. When the fax work (the “co
py”) turns out to be the original, the gap is created . The subversive potential of the fax machine is not solely fulfilled by this technique, but also by the change, by the individual, of the genuine function of the machine (instrument used to the transmission of information and to communication) and mostly, by the combination of the both: sending “fax works” through the machine.
The nature of the works, the space of the exhibition – the foyer of the “Interdisciplinary Arena” theater – a place where the visitors
are not coming in the aim of seeing exhibitions, and the way of displaying (works rolled up on the side, so that the observer is required to get closer and to open the works in order to look at them), raise interrogations about the canonical place of the artistic creation, and its cultural and commercial status.
Sound of the Installation (stretched tape of a recorded fax machine by Sala-manca)
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