LandE scape
Oren Seidner
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
the genesis of this series would you shed light on your usual process and set up?
The project " Chaos " started in my bedroom, alone, in an internal dispute with myself, those undergoing internal fights in my head that said " I want to kill myself ", not really myself but maybe my alter ego. And I started to think, how I can transfer these feelings and thoughts to someone else through photography? I could actually see myself from the side while thinking, appears as a kind of two people, each one pleased and disappointed, angry and the other one calm, sad and happy. I took the camera and started taking pictures immediately, the same day I took six different frames and the next day I went to Mr. Lior Hershkovitz, my lecturer in " dynamics of creation ", he liked the idea and showed me a number of similar works that he knows, and opened my eyes to how I can continue and develop this work, I realized I wanted to take this internal " Chaos " into the districts of humor, in fact I realized during the shooting that in all the mess hide some good, and I began to photograph situations of beauty, friendship, laughter and love. And with each click of the button I loved myself a little bit more. This work represents the therapy I spoked about earlier, through self-anger in my work I reached a Self-acceptance and the viewer gets not only picture, they receive a real glimpse into my soul.
We have appreciated the way Metropolis train captures the uncanny quality of everyday life 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?
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