Gaziel Eyal
Photographs
Curator: Kalaora Yifat and Avtalion Jackont Hadas
Opening: Thursday, 23 October 2014
Closing: Saturday, 13 December 2014
Gallery talk: Saturday, 22 November 2014 12:00
The exhibition showcases selected works from the series Memories. In his works, Gaziel seeks to reconstruct his personal childhood memories from a peripheral neighborhood. Gaziel chooses past experiences branded unto his memory and mind, and reassembles them as scenes in a play – his home neighborhood functions as scenery and its residents are the main actors.
As director, Gaziel leaves nothing to chance, as he stages, dresses and styles his characters, chooses the time of day and precise hour best suited for the shooting, places the props and adjusts the lighting. The journey back in time through the photographer’s eyes creates a new reality in which the adult gaze and puerile fantasy coalesce. Embarking on an infinite search, we return time and again to a universal story of a familiar place that can be a part of us, but sometimes feels strange and estranged. A place of doubtful existence: home.
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Born in 1974 in Kiryat Tivon
Lives and works in Kfar Saba
Education
2006 Graduate of the Executive Master's Program in Philosophy, Information
and Digital Culture, Tel Aviv University
2005 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2012 "Mekomon", the Photography Gallery, the Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha, Beit Berl
2007 "Past - Present - Past ", Moral Derfler Gallery, WizoAcademyofDesign,Haifa
2006 "Stand Still", Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 "Call to the Flag", Studio 20, Tel Aviv
2009 "Fresh Paint Contemporary Art Fair #2", Tel Aviv
2010 "Draw Me a Hero", Bet Michal, Rehovot
2008 "Ramat Hasharon Biennale for Young Artist", Yad Labanim Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
2007 "Reality", Meyuhas Creative Production Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 "Making a Scene: Staged Photography in Contemporary Art", Haifa Museum of Art
2005 "Childhood Memories" (graduates exhibition), BezalelAcademy of Art and Design,Jerusalem
"Academy Graduates Exhibition of the Photography Department 2005", The Open Museum of Tel Hai
"Auto/Biography in Contemporary Israeli Art", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
"Side Road",Kiryat Tivon Art Gallery
Scholarships
2007 The Pais Council for Art and Culture
2006 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts