LandE scape
Tal Amitai-Lavi
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
did you choose to center you artistic research on photography?
I have never been very confident with a paintbrush or a pencil, but with photography I found a way to express my ideas and myself. This was a revelation for me. Photography allowed me to capture images and share my ideas instantly. What I love about photography is that it is the most accessible medium, everyone can relate to it and everyone can appreciate a photograph. But what I was really interested in was getting the viewer to look at something for longer then they normally would. I want to show the viewer something they might have missed, or something they might not ever want to see, to put the viewer in my shoes.
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected Minutes and Chapel of the Rest, a couple of interesting projects that our readers have already started to admire in the introductory pages of this article. What has at once captured our attention of your research about issues relating to death is the way you provided the visual results of your analysis with autonomous aesthetics: when walking our readers through the genesis of these series would you shed light on your usual process and set up?
This project was something personal to me and I wanted to investigate where the body goes after we die. I researched every possible outcome and I wanted to see it firsthand. I was going into this project blind, I didn’ t know what I was going to photograph. I didn’ t have a plan; I just researched and visited everything I could possible related to this subject. I take time
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