Beyond the Distance - A Distance
Noa Yafe
2020
The photographic itself is the subject of Noa Yafe’s work—she makes it into a thing, literally. Yafe’s dioramas look like straightforward photos on display, but they are actually photographs of a different kind, operating between the illusion that reconstructs an image, the appearance of a photograph and its material analysis. With the same inventive spirit that drove early attempts at mechanical photography almost two centuries ago, Yafe reflects in the most poignant way on the possibility of an image to appear. Her work operates at the forefront of contemporary digital photography even as it explores other, more manual ways of creating pictures. It highlights the convergence of image and event, photo and object, production and display. Treating sculptural installations as image-making devices, Yafe immerses the viewer in beauty and fiction, mise-en-scène and glam, spirituality and light.
- Copies: 800
- Pages: 104
- Type of binding: Softcover
- Dimensions (cm): 27X21.5
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Mousse Publishing
- Place of publication: Milan, Italy
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, RawArt Gallery
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-88-6749-435-4
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Noa Yafe, b. 1978, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. She received her BFA and MFA from HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College. Yafe’s works blur the boundaries between photography, sculpture, installation, and architecture. In her work, she deals with possibilities of vision and knowledge, including through the construction of three-dimensional dioramas that seem like two-dimensional photographs. In recent years, she has participated in several group exhibitions and staged a number of solo exhibitions: Revulsion, at the Tel Aviv Artist Studios (2019); Beyond the Distance - A Distance at Raw Art Gallery (2018); The Perfect Crime at the CCA (2017); The Shadow at Raw Art Gallery (2016).