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In this issue
Max Leach
Haim Levy
Ante Kustre
Diego Bernaschina
Hana Jaeger
Jean-Marie Guyaux
Maksim Kuznetcov Diego Bernaschina Vered Snear
USA Chile Israel / USA
In my work I always try to find
As the artist, I have been
answers for existential questions investigating the ways in the
like: is there beauty and joy in our
social art, focusing on at
lives?; why do we enjoy living if
social reality, where it’s
our strongest memories are of
negative experiences?; what is the interpreted as the prejudice,
meaning of life itself?. I see human the disinterest and the
life as a sequence of emotional
disgust towards the
states (mostly negative) that we
communicative perception,
can barely comprehend and make
sense of them, drifting from point and their different creative
processes of the artistic
A (birth) to a final destination -
point B (death) - which awaits us production: paintings, digital
just around the corner. I tend to
art, photography and
think that moments of happiness
videoart. In this respect, the
are so rare & elusive,
unsustainable and deceiving - yet question of art, from the
are so needed in our lives - that we social and cultural. It may
seek the meaning of our lives from therefore be concluded that
them. If they are carved out from the question from multiple
one's experiences then nothing but different angles is that we
blood, despair, misery and
have failed to come up with a
emptiness are left. I am trying to
consistent message. From
look deeper in these states,
there, I can see and feel that
dissecting them, and represent
them in my art. The ultimate
the work of art is a possibility
question I want to answer can be to demonstrate this, to
phrased in the following way: Is
question our way of view, to
there an ethically justified place
for us - conscious human beings - interrogate the gaze in the
the artistic behavior, it’s that
in the existential climate of our
perceptions of life, the very
you can get a critical
meaning of life? Emotions and
approach to our ways of
experiences linked to reality, in
perceiving the reality before
their purest forms, are my subjects
of interest, which I try to express the excluding world for the
art.
through abstracted figures.
My artistic practice is rooted in
the observation of the
construction of my identity in
relation to the constantly shifting
cultural and political landscape of
Israel, the country in which I was
born and raised. For my
generation of Israelis who grew
up during the late 80’s, as the
country transitioned from
socialism to capitalism, from
zionism to post-zionism, the
zionist dream was challenged and
criticized, and a previously
embraced dominant narrative of
nationhood and cultural pride was
put to question. I experienced this
transition through popular media:
television, movies, magazines, etc.
It impacted me deeply and lead to
my current critical perspective
how ideological frameworks
impact not only the society we live
in but our very own formation as
individuals. I am committed to
explore at large relationships
between media and ideology, to
challenge dominant ideas and to
better understand representation
as a tool that articulates
subjectivities, bodies, affects and
desires. Working in video,
photography, performance and
installation, I use text and visual
language from popular media
such as YouTube, news broadcasts
and TV as source materials for my
work.
Maksim Kuznetcov
Doria Sharra
Izabela Mašić
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Special thanks to: Charlotte Seegers, Martin Gantman,
Krzysztof Kaczmar, Tracey Snelling, Nicolas Vionnet,
Genevieve Favre Petroff, Christopher Marsh, Adam Popli,
Marilyn Wylder, Marya Vyrra, Gemma Pepper, Maria Osuna,
Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman, Yelena York Tonoyan,
Edgar Askelovic, Kelsey Sheaffer and Robert Gschwantner.