Hadar
2014, Mixed media, 170x240 cm
This work is composed of drawings on transparency and glass, which are based on two photographs from the family album. One photograph captures the father taking a snapshot, while in the second portrays the father at a family event with his daughter seated on his shoulders. The drawings replicate the photographs or details of them, and are positioned in a manner that creates reciprocal relations between them. In some cases, the father in one drawing appears to be photographing himself and his daughter in the adjacent drawing. At the center of the work are enlarged fragments of the daughter’s face, parts of which are missing.
This work examines the presence of the camera in family life, and its role in documenting intimate and special moments. It also explores the participation of photographs in a common ritual – that of framing and displaying family experiences. It captures the tension created between the photograph as a process of reproduction and replication, and the photograph as documenting the uniqueness of the everyday.
