Emerging impact - Fresh Voices in Contemporary Art
Emerging impact - Fresh Voices in Contemporary Art
Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Production Still from “Beneath the Roses”) (2005).
Photo: ClampArt
N: Gregory Crewdson. He's a contemporary photographer that photographs the American suburbs. He arrives in a location, closes down the entire street, rents cranes, uses special lighting… builds the frame to the smallest detail.
T: We are interested in his control of details and light. We like the drama.
Nati Hoki and Tom Ariel, “Hercules” airplane, 4/5 large film format, 2020.
T: Most of our photography is somewhat of a photographic research.What can one do with a camera, with this medium? We try to expand the limits of the medium.
N: Our method is similar to studio photography, but we do it outdoors. Also, usually in photography, it is quite easy to recognize what is depicted. In our work, there's a surprise. People don't understand what they are looking at, how this thing came to appear in a photograph.
T: Most of our projects include objects that were thrown out. Things that used to be valued – cars, quarries, and even small objects such as toasters. Using photography, we give these objects a new space. Re-contextualize them.
Nati Hoki and Tom Ariel, photographers. Live together in Jaffa. Work at The Printhouse.
Next exhibition: Fresh Paint art fair.
N: I always knew that I would study art. As a teenager, I used to paint for fun, for myself. My dad always asked me what I plan to do with it, but I never thought of the financial side. I wanted to learn.
T: I am from Kibbutz Givat Oz, but I was born in Australia. I worked at a metalsmith's workshop as a child. Around 10th grade, I began to create sculptures using metal, just for fun. After my military service, I began working and did not have enough time to practice sculpture, so I started painting. I started photographing using film following my lecturer Liat Elbling. I began developing films on my own and explained the practice to Nati. Then he started taking pictures as well. But I still don’t see myself as a photographer.
N: Our first collaboration was our graduation show. It was about the relationship between nature and humans. Film was a sort of restriction we had to work around, and it's easier to do in a duo. There's a dialogue that takes place while you work together, which is not so common with artists. Most of them work alone and only get feedback afterward.
