Asaf Gam Hacohen

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Artist statement

My photography-based art is motivated by a desire to examine the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical aspects of life on the borderline between the concrete and the digital spheres. I create digital collages, sculptures, videos and installations that correspond to the history of the medium, I examine questions relating to its nature and its role in the culture, especially in light of the turning point in the medium (as well as our culture) with the development of digitization. A key point for me is how photography reflects the culture, how it is reflected in it and corresponds to it. In my recent works I'm creating digital collages of urban scenes, then deconstructing them and reconstructing them as new and calibrated digital environments. Although the works are the product of a laborious, manual and low-tech process of stretching one pixel after the other, they may be defined by a meticulous, sleek, emotionally distant aesthetic with a high-tech appearance. The creation of mises-en-scène consisting of multiple simultaneous occurrences results in the dumping of decisive moments, which are disconnected from each other even though they inhabit the same space, it represents the way human experience is challenged in the digital age - physical detachment vis-à-vis a digital connection. The construction of the square pixelate spaces is plastering the scene and unifies it - the spaces receive the same treatment and appear at first glance almost similar because of the technical...

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