Photography, moving image and autobiographical archives of masculinity, desire, exile and memory.
An archive of fragments — soldiers and strangers, lovers and landscapes, cities, childhood and exile. Still and moving diaries from the unstable theatre of memory.
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Seven ongoing investigations across still and moving image. Years, mediums and final descriptions to be confirmed by the artist.
The confusing and bewildering paradox of the masculine and militarist blended with the homoerotic in Cuba — the artist's own memories of growing up in young, macho and militarist Israel.
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A travelogue around the mythic, nomadic nature of landscape — landscape as a stage on which to cast desire, identity and personal history.
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Staged images of recollection, conflict and trapped emotion — adolescence in a deeply conservative and traditional society.
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Portraits of foreigners in a city full of immigrants — the brief contract between watcher and watched.
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The thin line between homo-erotic and homo-social in army life.
Enter ProjectAn autobiographical investigation of personal family narratives — still and moving image fractured into time and space.
Enter ProjectSeven 110mm negatives, separated by hand from a forgotten envelope — involuntary memories returning out of order, in their own light.
Enter ProjectThe confusing and bewildering paradox of the masculine and militarist blended with the homoerotic in Cuba — evoking the artist's own memories of growing up in young, macho and militarist Israel.
Archival pigment prints, produced in tightly limited editions and hand-signed by the artist. All editions accompanied by a numbered certificate of authenticity.
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Photography books, exhibition catalogues and artist PDFs. Titles, ISBN, prices and signed copy availability — to be confirmed by the artist.
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“Kobi Israel's work is autobiographical in nature, investigating the remembrance of things past — empty landscapes, intimate encounters and touristic travelogues as backdrops for an inside quest and reflection. Still and moving images of masculinity, desire, exile and the self as witness.”
Work in progress across image, sound, writing and the working archive.
In progress — details to be confirmed by artist.
New film / video work — details to be confirmed.
Sound and score explorations — details to be confirmed.
Essays, notes and texts — details to be confirmed.
Working notes from the archive — details to be confirmed.
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