Eran Tsafrir's art, predominantly
photography and photography-based installations, deals with the way destiny,
fate and circumstance shape the lives of individuals, communities and
societies.
Eran works with untrained sitters, still-life objects and landscape elements - in many cases from his and his sitters' immediate surroundings. A realistic image of a subject, on colour transparency, using available light without filters, not manipulated or retouched, is where the work begins.
Then, moving away from the original indexicality, and challenging the inherent two dimensional limitation of the photographic medium, the work takes the form of diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs and often incorporates materials such as fabric, newspapers, stone, mud, and concrete, as well as sound and light.
Eran's latest project, diG.shaKe.riSe.andblEEed,myloVe. questions the potency of demonstration, riot, revolt, and sacrifice as an instrument for policy change, against the backdrop of the economic downturn, cuts, job losses, rise in university tuition fees, broken manifesto promises, student and anti cuts protests, strikes, riots and occupations.
At the heart of the project is a mix-media installation which is currently (December 2011 - January 2012) on show at the hidden Old Shoreditch Station Project Space in East London.
diG.shaKe.riSe.andblEEed,myloVe. is created within the ambit of conteXtism, a manifesto driven initiative aimed at illuminating the interrelationships between art and the social, political, economic, religious, ethical and legal contexts in which it is made and displayed.
For more information about diG.shaKe.riSe.andblEEed,myloVe., to view the project's video trailer and images, visit:
digshakeriseandbleeedmylove.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/digshakeriseandbleeedmylove
Decomposition. Alef. (the blue portrait shown above) was exhibited in August 2010 at Angel underground station. It is the first of a mixed-media series inspired by the work and life story of Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) to be shown in a site-specific event in Dalston, East London later this year (2012).
For Art Licks listing (the social and creative guide to London Art scene beyond the obvious) click here:
http://artlicks.com/events/980/decomposition-alef
"there
are things that cannot ever occur with any precision. they are too big and too
magnificent to be contained in mere facts. they are merely trying to occur,
they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. and they
quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of
realisation."
(Bruno Schulz, The Book, Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass)
INFO
- Name: Eran Tsafrir
- Country: GB
- Website: erantsafrir.com
- Discipline: FINE_ARTIST
