“Like a Thread in a Storm”
An essay for a digital catalogue for Tal Amitai-Lavi: Light Construction, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art,
February – May 2014
The exhibition “Light Construction” comprises a house damaged by a storm, a colonnade which carries nothing, and a door that leads to the unknown. It is made wholly from threads – sewing threads and nylon threads – magical threads in the frequency of Zen poems. Airy and transparent, devoid of color and aura, their presence is immaterial, amorphous, fragile, and quivering. Tal Amitai-Lavi uses these threads together with light beams as her principal sculptural syntax. Her minimalist articulation brings her closer, via an ongoing reductive process, to the hardware, to the architectural element itself, to the supporting walls that have collapsed, to the threshold, to the fake columns, and thereby – to the poetics of the discourse of home.
“Like a Thread in a Storm”
An essay for a digital catalogue for Tal Amitai-Lavi: Light Construction, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art,
February – May 2014
The exhibition “Light Construction” comprises a house damaged by a storm, a colonnade which carries nothing, and a door that leads to the unknown. It is made wholly from threads – sewing threads and nylon threads – magical threads in the frequency of Zen poems. Airy and transparent, devoid of color and aura, their presence is immaterial, amorphous, fragile, and quivering. Tal Amitai-Lavi uses these threads together with light beams as her principal sculptural syntax. Her minimalist articulation brings her closer, via an ongoing reductive process, to the hardware, to the architectural element itself, to the supporting walls that have collapsed, to the threshold, to the fake columns, and thereby – to the poetics of the discourse of home.
