Vision Moves Into Grasp
Dorit Feldman
2012
The self-portrait in the book emphasizes philosophical and textual aspects. Marking, defining, and emphasizing the direct gaze, in the movement of the hands, towards the future, built on an inner gaze (the figure is photographed from behind). An exploratory and interpretive study of the past. The creation of the book-object was done in correspondence and quoting philosophical themes from the book of Prof. Hagai Canaan, ‘Inward Speech: Seeing Differently Following Emmanuel Levinas’.
The gender enigma raised in Feldman's early body of work, gives way to philosophical enigmas. Between the pages of the book-object appear original pages in German and Hebrew from Heinrich Graetz's historical book - 'History of the Jews’ from an original copy dated 1908. The pages are also interwoven with visual analogies from Levinas' work.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 8
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 43x76x6.5
- Publication: Dorit Feldman Studio
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas & Shiraz Grinbaum
Dorit Feldman (1956-2020), was an interdisciplinary artist in the ideological and material sense. The field described in her works, as a rule, is consciousness. Out of a controversial (politically and socially conflicted) reality, a longing for the unity of opposites was created, and an attempt to formulate a new world picture based on spiritual universal knowledge charges and recent scientific discoveries is evident. She graduated from the Midrash in 1979. School of Visual Arts, New York (M.F.A. degree program). Studies in Urbino, Atalia, 1987. Various studies in the fields of humanities as part of the foreign studies of Tel Aviv University. She presented 24 solo exhibitions, and over a hundred group exhibitions in leading galleries and museums in Israel, Europe, and the USA. Feldman made about 90 works in the public space, sculptures, and commissioned works for building foyers, sculpture gardens, and various business companies. Her works are in private collections in Israel, Europe, and the USA.
