Tal Amitai-Lavi
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
to reflect on my work before I know I have got something interesting. After visiting locations I will openly photograph a lot of different subjects. I need time for everything to sink in and reflect on the photographs I have taken. I will always return to photograph the subject precisely how I want it to look. I like the symmetry and composition to be perfect in each image, so the viewer’ s can easily flow through the work.
As you have remarked once, every Chapel of Rest you have visited was very uncomfortable to be in, not because there had been a dead person in the room, it was the space itself: we have appreciated the way you have snatched the uncanny quality of these places, reminding us the notion of non lieu elaborated by French anthropologist Marc Augé: artists are always interested in probing to see what is beneath the surface: maybe one of the roles of an artist could be to reveal unexpected sides of Nature, especially of our inner Nature... what ' s your view about this?
I think this is an interesting point and for these particular projects I am revealing the part of nature we don’ t like to think about, death. In our culture we shy away from seeing or even talking about death. On a daily basis, our culture protects us from what happens to us after we die. I wanted to see the side of human life what we all don’ t want to see.
It goes without saying that the ambience you captured through
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