Tali Navon
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
As an artist, I cannot and do not wish to force the viewer to do something, though I would be happy if my work were to have an impact on the viewer. The Janco Dada Museum in northern Israel displayed an installation I created in which a video work connects to an environment in which the viewer can experience a utopia of sorts. It too connects nature to human nature.
I do think that connecting to the inner self is a beneficial process. Through all my years of work, I have found that the deeper I go into myself, the more I succeed to reach a broader audience that is touched by my work and identifies with it.
There are a lot of reminders of childhood in your video It ' s There. How do you see the relationship between memory and time? which you choose to present“ your world.” Would you elaborate on this aspect of your practice for our readers? In particular, do you think that your practice would establish a channel of communication between the inner self and the outside?
It’ s There does indeed include scenes from my childhood, but it is not actually related to memory for me since I do not remember anything from when I was two or three years old. This work utilizes slides and 8 mm films that my father made during that period of my life and that I am analyzing and addressing now as an adult. The 8 mm films my father created when I was a child also are part of an installation that I displayed in the Israel Museum’ s exhibition,“ Happy Birthday.” Examining this material from my childhood provides me with insights about interfamilial relations, such as what a mother, father or sister was then and what it means to me today. It also enables me to better understand how I function today as an individual, as a parent and as a member of a complex, interdependent society.