FINDING

Irit Tamari

2017

Finding was published in 2017 as an artist’s book, a chapter of which is dedicated to the solo exhibition Confronting A Statue curated by Shlomit Breuer at the Basis Gallery, which was located at the Basis School for Art and Culture in Herzliya.
The book serves as a kind of visual reflection diary, containing artworks alongside photographs, some of which are used as raw materials that will or will not be dismantled later. The thought behind the book, which also influenced its size, which fits in the palm, as well as its name, was the desire to convey my work process which consists of manually composing and disassembling photographs that I take on a daily basis.

My wish was to create an associative visual field that will allow the reader/viewer to navigate between the images themselves without being led by words about the images. I asked the editor and curator to think of texts from books or films which they liked and linked them with my body of work.

Apart from the images from the exhibition that are grouped in a separate chapter, the rest of the works are not presented chronologically but try to find new visual connections that allow the reader to peek into the process of my work and thinking, which draw from the image and its deconstruction.

  • Copies: 500
  • Pages: 104
  • Type of binding: hardcover
  • Dimensions (cm): 14.5X18.3X1.5
  • Reproductions: Irit Tamari
  • Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
  • Binding: A.R. Printing LTD
  • Type of printing: Offset
  • Publication: AR Prints Ltd.
  • Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
  • Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, Basis for Art &Culture
  • ISBN: 9789655724424

Irit Tamari (b. 1976) is an Israeli artist working in photography, sculpture, and installation. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. Tamari is a graduate of the Hamidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl (2003) and holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her work is characterized by a distinctive use of photography as raw material: she cuts, dismantles, and reconstructs photographic images to create installations, sculptures, and three-dimensional collages. Through this process, she blurs the boundaries of the photographic medium, examining the tension between image and material, and between illusionistic depth and physical flatness.
At the core of her practice is an exploration of transformation, how photographic images can be altered, and how this transformation reshapes perception and ways of seeing. Tamari has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including at the Herzliya Museum, Ashdod Museum of Art, the Eretz Israel Museum, and various galleries in Israel and abroad. She is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the Prize for the Encouragement of Artistic Creation (2016) and a Pais Council grant (2017).