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The etchings belong to two series entitled “Password” and “Near, Far”. Both point to the possibility of establishing spaces where we can meet each other despite our differences. In the first series, my point of departure were photographs taken in 2001 at the new border between Israel and Lebanon. Geographic, demographic and political changes that arose in previous years have made the drawing up of new borders a tedious and arduous task.
The second series allowed me to explore the duality between distance and proximity, the opposition between the accessible and the unreachable, through anonymous and common places where the search for the perfect image, always elusive, seems to be reached. In each etching there is an attempt to capture an image as a whole, which in fact can only be reached in the viewer’s and artist’s mind through the complete perspective suggested by the entire series; that vision capable of effectively binding each one of the etchings in a complete and transcendent aesthetic unity.
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