em | Hanita Ilan and Tal Gafny July 2017 | Sadnaot Haomanim, Tel Aviv, Israel | Curating and Text by Dr. Vered Zafran Gani
Photography: Elad Sarig
The exhibition is the fruit of a two years long collaborative process of artists Hanita Ilan and Tal Gafny. The work of Hanita Ilan is charged with juxtapositions of past and present: the history of the middle east and its complex relations with archeology. The foot of the Colossus of Constantine fades and appears upon paper scrolls resembling architectural columns. Images of before/after of destroyed temples of Palmyra, Syria, were the starting point of two paintings shown in the black part of the gallery space. Alongside, are both personal and formal layers: a yellow rectangle, broken into a circle and other forms, relates to the format of a painting as a whole and to the gallery space as it breaks apart; an additional aspect of the relationship between destruction and construction.
Tal Gafny creates a morbid presence with flickering images that summon thoughts about ends and edges. Such is a tombstone-like object engraved with a graphic shape of a wave, emphasized with the use of pigments.The relations between the ordered and chaotic, the whole and the broken, repeatedly appear in fragments of plastic plates and the ceramic casts made out of them.
Tal Gafny creates a morbid presence with flickering images that summon thoughts about ends and edges. Such is a tombstone-like object engraved with a graphic shape of a wave, emphasized with the use of pigments.The relations between the ordered and chaotic, the whole and the broken, repeatedly appear in fragments of plastic plates and the ceramic casts made out of them.
