Photography, fragments and autobiographical archives
A photographic archive of masculinity, desire, exile, memory, travel, strangers, landscapes and the unstable theatre of identity.
Kobi Israel's photographic work moves between documentary encounter, staged intimacy, travel diary, homoerotic tension, autobiography and visual memory. The still image becomes evidence, performance, confession and fragment.
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Twelve ongoing investigations. Years, locations, status 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 ProjectA working archive of uniforms, gestures, group portraits and the codes of trained male bodies.
Enter ProjectNighttime ambulations, queer cartographies and the soft choreography of strangers in the city.
Enter ProjectA continuing series on the photographed body — desired, observed, dressed, undressed, remembered.
Enter ProjectLandscapes carrying the residue of biography: borders, returns, departures, the geography of leaving.
Enter ProjectA private archive of family pictures, letters, marginal images and the working notes of a life made of looking.
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.
A clear, understated path for collectors interested in signed limited edition prints from the photographic archive. All works produced to archival standards, hand-signed and accompanied by a numbered certificate of authenticity.
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Short poetic, historical and autobiographical notes connected to the photographic archive. Final texts to be supplied by the artist.
Notes on the photograph as a memory object — to be confirmed by artist.
Read Note →Notes on looking, longing and the photographed body — to be confirmed by artist.
Read Note →Notes on masculinity as performance, costume and inheritance — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on departure, return and the geography of leaving — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on travel as a way of seeing and being seen — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on uniforms, training and the trained male body — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on the photographed body, dressed and undressed — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on cities as theatres of strangers and intimacy — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on landscape as biography and residue — to be confirmed.
Read Note →Notes on the autobiographical I — to be confirmed by artist.
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