Yair Garbuz Goes to the Cinema

Yair Garbuz Goes to the Cinema begins from a biographical place, a young man learns by imitation. I start with the premise that from birth every person has a theoretical biography that will never come to fruition, because it has already happened. In other words, you cannot be what you are not. I couldn’t draw the Seine River, so I wrote about it and inserted a picture of myself in a cafe on Allenby Street with the caption: “This is how he passed the years in Paris.” Many of the people who influenced art in Israel at the beginning of my journey were Francophiles: Yigal Tumarkin, Nathan Zach, Amos Keinan. My dream was that someone will write on some photograph: “Yair Garbuz, Paris, winter 1957.” So I took a photo and wrote an article.
-- This short text was taken from an arm-chair conversation between Yair Garbuz and Shiraz Grinbaum in December 2021.