Flying Down
2014, Mixed media, 250x140x200 cm
This work is based on two family photographs. Its central part features the figures of a man and a woman. The man photographs the woman, which is replicated across the surface of the paper in accordance with the patterns drawn upon it. This work focuses on the perception of the woman as the object of the man’s gaze, and on the relations between subject and object, active and passive, male and female. Most of the seamlines in the work were created using techniques of sewing and knitting, which bring together delicate, fragile materials and readily available industrial materials: a transparency is sewn to paper, fishing line is knit to a metal cable, and so forth. These contrasts give rise to a tension between intimacy and estrangement, presence and ethereality. The front part of the work is a weight composed of inner tubing and filled with sand, while its back part is a nylon parachute. The resulting atmosphere is shaped by the contradictions between hovering and halting, falling and taking flight. This work was exhibited in 2016 at a psychotherapy conference at the Magid Institute, Tel Aviv, titled “Bion and the Large Glass – A Cultural Event in Three Acts.”
