Website: http://yairbarak.com/
Image:
Title: Dear
Year: 2009
Value: $2500
Size:62x92 cm
Edition: 1/5
Description: pigment print on archival paper
About the artwork:
Recall a flood of images.
Recall a chest, full of drawers
Recall images jumping into a chest, full of drawers
Recall images jumping from drawer to drawer, mixing, melting, engaging, detaching.
Recall opened empty drawers that were once full of images
Recall a syntax of images, a layered visual archive, being set as an anthology.
over the last few years, my work has been assembled of photographs, modified images and still videos. a pseudo archival collection of images that echoes historical systems, mechanics of power and knowledge and a constant research of the photographic medium and it's aesthetics.
a book cover
an empty stadium
About the Artist:
Born 1973, lives and works in Tel-Aviv.
Medium: Photography and Video
Yair Barak has studied at Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and graduated from the Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv. He has studied at the prestigious MFA program in Bard College, New York.
Barak's work deals with discursive issues, the mechanism of reproduction and esthetic's borderlines in between photography, drawing and installation. In his recent work, Barak is involved in pseudo-photographic processes such as scanning, digital drawing and appropriation of 'already-made” images.
His works have been shown in well-known galleries and museums in Israel and have been acquired by private and public collections in Israel and abroad. Amongst them: Tel-Aviv Museum, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Haifa Museum and the Steinhardt Collection NY. Beside his art practice Barak is a curator, a lecturer and a writer.
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