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lives and works in Tel Aviv , Israel

Stephen Chen

USA

Tali Navon

USA

Spyros Kouvaras

Greece

lives and works in Canada

Bounded Nature is a photographic series that investigates the dialectic and tension between the natural and the man-made ; how nature is contained , pruned , and rendered “ invisible ”. Nature becomes dis- “ figured ” through decentering , which is both a commentary and metaphor for urban dwellers ’ ritualized and cultivated unconscious of their impacts on the larger environment in their everyday actions . Urban photography has created a pervasive trope of the city to the extent we learn not to “ see ” nature in depictions of urban settings ; our gaze cultivated instead towards the geometry and lines of the man-made . On the other hand , landscape photography ( whether the unspoiled vistas of Ansel Adams , or the degraded beauty of Edward Burtynsky ) have favoured exotic and far-flung locales that further distance the urban dweller in appreciating their intricate relation to the larger environment .

My video works connect moments in time . The works connect the abstract and the concrete I test / check memories of the past in light of contemporary moments . ete : the abstract rules the domains where memories or dreams appear , relying upon sensations and feelings ; the concrete contains various objects , such as an old book or a Snow White doll . I relate to this environment – an environment for growing ( girls ) – along with the realistic , contemporary , day-today environment . The works create a sort of “ encompassing format ” or space in which I choose to present “ my world .” Observations happen from it – from inside out and from outside in . The 8 mm films that my father shot when I was a child ( in the 1970s ) are my raw material . The act of drawing ( I draw ) connected figures is a recurring motif in the works . The figures are from the world of childhood , but there is no doubt of their presence in the present . They rule the past , present , and future .

My choreographic research consists on a mechanistic approach of movement using at the same time the body as a canvas , as an abstract surface , so that the movement can be in the image and the movement can vibrates the image . I practice a research that focuses on the relation between body , sound and image and I am interest- ing on the sculpture tangibility of the bodies , the prolonged duration of the movement and the aesthetic precision . It is about a study of abstraction where its strength consists on the intensity between human subject and visual object , between time and space , movement and sound . An important area of creation is the approach of art and philosophy as well as art and science . The kinetic vocabulary of the company focuses on the development of a personal choreographic language which deviates from the recognizable forms of contemporary dance and usually takes a hybrid form .

lives and works in Poland

lives and works in The Netherlands

lives and works in Tel-Aviv , Israel

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Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey , Martin Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar , Joshua White , Nicolas Vionnet , Genevieve Favre Petroff , Sandra Hunter , MyLoan Dinh , John Moran , Marya Vyrra , Gemma Pepper , Michael Nelson , Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman , Yelena York Tonoyan , Haylee Lenkey , Martin Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen .

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