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lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Stephen Chen

USA

Tali Navon

USA

Spyros Kouvaras

Greece

lives and works in Canada

Bounded Nature is a photographic series that investigates the dialectic and tension between the natural and the man-made; how nature is contained, pruned, and rendered“ invisible”. Nature becomes dis-“ figured” through decentering, which is both a commentary and metaphor for urban dwellers’ ritualized and cultivated unconscious of their impacts on the larger environment in their everyday actions. Urban photography has created a pervasive trope of the city to the extent we learn not to“ see” nature in depictions of urban settings; our gaze cultivated instead towards the geometry and lines of the man-made. On the other hand, landscape photography( whether the unspoiled vistas of Ansel Adams, or the degraded beauty of Edward Burtynsky) have favoured exotic and far-flung locales that further distance the urban dweller in appreciating their intricate relation to the larger environment.

My video works connect moments in time. The works connect the abstract and the concrete I test / check memories of the past in light of contemporary moments. ete: the abstract rules the domains where memories or dreams appear, relying upon sensations and feelings; the concrete contains various objects, such as an old book or a Snow White doll. I relate to this environment – an environment for growing( girls) – along with the realistic, contemporary, day-today environment. The works create a sort of“ encompassing format” or space in which I choose to present“ my world.” Observations happen from it – from inside out and from outside in. The 8 mm films that my father shot when I was a child( in the 1970s) are my raw material. The act of drawing( I draw) connected figures is a recurring motif in the works. The figures are from the world of childhood, but there is no doubt of their presence in the present. They rule the past, present, and future.

My choreographic research consists on a mechanistic approach of movement using at the same time the body as a canvas, as an abstract surface, so that the movement can be in the image and the movement can vibrates the image. I practice a research that focuses on the relation between body, sound and image and I am interest- ing on the sculpture tangibility of the bodies, the prolonged duration of the movement and the aesthetic precision. It is about a study of abstraction where its strength consists on the intensity between human subject and visual object, between time and space, movement and sound. An important area of creation is the approach of art and philosophy as well as art and science. The kinetic vocabulary of the company focuses on the development of a personal choreographic language which deviates from the recognizable forms of contemporary dance and usually takes a hybrid form.

lives and works in Poland

lives and works in The Netherlands

lives and works in Tel-Aviv, Israel

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Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar, Joshua White, Nicolas Vionnet, Genevieve Favre Petroff, Sandra Hunter, MyLoan Dinh, John Moran, Marya Vyrra, Gemma Pepper, Michael Nelson, Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman, Yelena York Tonoyan, Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen.

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