Land scape
Tali Navon
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Jean-Jacques Rousseau found that personal intimacy is not isolated from connecting to the outside world, which is becoming increasingly homogenous. For Rousseau, philosophy was a way of life and an exercise in the art of life. He concluded that the artist, who is alone in his or her studio, creates a work as an individual. However, the moment the artist unveils a work to viewers, a relationship is created with the work’ s surroundings and the work becomes part of society.
Another installation of mine displayed at the Israel Museum addresses the subject of birthdays and incorporates 88 mm film that my father shot during birthdays and a series of works on glass, including Birthday Bouquets.
Forward emphasizes mindfulness towards nature. For this work, I researched biophilia, the psychological concept that nature is an integral part of our lives and humans cannot survive without it. Just think of our connection to animals, to all that grows, to water and so much more... Today the environment we live in is more digital than ever before, but nature still can be found in it. That said, sometimes what we find is a replacement for nature such as when cities attempt to introduce nature into urban environments. I address this in Double Landscape, which was displayed earlier this year as part of a group exhibition at the Rothschild Fine Art Gallery in Tel Aviv. The Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv also displayed a work of mine that explores this topic: an installation that is a combination of nature and human nature.