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Tal Amitai-Lavi

LandE scape

CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
I personally don ’ t think it can , we have all lived different lives and all had different experiences . No one person will have experienced the same life . I think it can be disconnected from a direct experience , but subconsciously all of our experiences influence the creative process . All of my projects have originated from an experience ; it could be a conversation or something I have walked past in the street . These experiences trigger thoughts , ideas and help me to inspire a project .
While you have once highlighte the importance of naming your works — for example in Minutes , the number corresponds to how many minutes the body has been in the cremator — sometimes your images rejects an explicit explanatory strategy : they seem to be the tip of the iceberg of what you are really attempting to communicate . How does representation and a tendency towards abstraction on a semantic level find their balance in your work ?
I don ’ t want the viewer to understand the work immediately . The viewer has to work for the answers , but the images aren ’ t abstract , they are all recognizable . I want the viewers to visually enjoy the work at first but then to start the secondary process of considering what they are looking at . I use a range of titles to communicate to nudge the viewers in the right direction . If the photographs are more visually loaded , I tend to give the work a slightly abstract title . In this two-
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