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Michal Yaffe-Fabian
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30.5.2008 |
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18.6.2008 |
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Objects presented in a display window usually imply other activities that take place beyond it.
The display window serves to attract the passers- by and entice them to enter the space and there to deliver the merchandise either material or cultural.
In Michal Yaffe's case a strange thing happens: The display window is apparently an extension of the public space in front of it, i.e. the street. The street scene, with all its noises, enters the gallery. It ceases to be a protected, "cultural" space, but instead becomes a part of the urban polyphony. With materials from the street (cartons and boxes) and street wisdom Michal Yaffe builds a kind of an alternative, mini-size distorted city.
Boxes and objects are placed, one on top of the other. The images of people appearing on some of them are too big, windows are opened and they are too small. Objects are placed on top of the structures and the building becomes a table, the exterior becomes interior.
Like in a circus, this is a distorted reflection of the city where Michal Yaffe grew-up and lives, and it is exhibited in her work in a live and vivid manner. Michal Yaffe's city is at the same time ugly and beautiful, disciplined (by the grid) and diffused, stressful yet breathing.
The flat display window receives volume by both the multitude of structures and the nature of the work that uses the materials to raise questions on flatness.
This is the first exhibition of a young talented artist, a graduate of
the Beit Berl College of Art."
Anat Betzer
Michal Yaffe Fabian, CV
Born Tel-Aviv 1983
Graduate of The Biet Berl Collage of Art
Exhibitions
Video-Art (Tank Tefilin), ForteCita 4, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, 2005
Photography, at Opening of The Girls from Avignon, The Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, 2006
Installation and Video, Final Exhibition at Biet Berl College of Art, 2007,
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