Alicia Shahaf
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
questions about aesthetics and politics and the world we live in.
This series started- like much of my work – with my personal connection to Julio Cortazar. This writer wrote texts that touch me. I really feel them in my body. His writing is surrealist, he creates new worlds, impossible in reality, turns me over and over again to engage in these texts and transform them into images, create new worlds that begin in the real and dive deep into dream, emotional worlds.
It may sound funny, but this series was born from a mistake. I ' ll explain: I shot Efrat on the roof of my studio in Tel Aviv. Efrat is a dear friend, the daughter of a very famous woman in Israel. Efrat’ s mother established a dance company, one of the best in the country. We talked a lot about things we have in common and we decided to make a photo session on the roof. She brought a white fabric- it looks like a diaper or a shroud. She danced, played with the fabric, slowly took out her clothes and I photographed. Some frames were very good. I put those