Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos
Forbidden Photos, my most recent series, mixes xerographic printing, gel transfer, drawing and painting, marking my return to medium in which I first worked as an artist. In this series, the metamorphosis of the photographed that is so central to my work happens through two medial interventions: xerographic transfer, a primitive print technique that accidently excludes key elements of the original; and painting, through which I intentionally but partially occlude elements of landscape. I create a pictorial language of palimpsest and pentimento: brushwork adds something new, some specific difference, that etching cannot produce. This series brings together diverse spatio-temporalities: the Israeli Iron Dome mobile air defense system, informal Eritrean refugee camps destroyed by Israeli police, architectural plans for a building my father, an engineer, designed in 1940s Tel-Aviv, and technical drawings for a sculpture of my own design. The past and the present, the public and the private, the intentional and the incidental, produce the palimpsest that is Israel, pictorially rendered here through a layering of techniques that expose and obscure, as time does through memory and forgetting.