LandEscape Art Review | Page 65

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
33