KOBI ISRAEL – IN BETWEEN LANDS
2012-10-29The trilogy, Land Scapes, a travelogue that evolves around the mythic, nomadic nature of landscape photography, is a symbolic tale forming an epic cinematic journey. Each chapter explores psychological territories, using landscape as a stage on which to cast the themes of desire, identity and personal history whilst the spectator is encouraged to assemble clues and construct a personal narrative. The first trilogy, Promised Lands, marks the start of the journey and depicts waterfronts, mountains and beautiful woodlands symbolic of abundance and promises of love, relating to personal identities embedded in Israel’s consciousness.
The second – the current exhibition – In Between Lands, represents the passage between the promised and dreamed – transitory, nomadic spaces that hang between memory and being; documenting the split of time moving simultaneously towards the future and the past, yet seemingly suspended in the present. The third and last series – still in development – Dreamed Lands, depicts landscapes that once epitomised fantasy, now lie in rot and decay; here Israel highlights that we are unable to fix memories, instead we edit, redraft and rewrite them.
Exhibition runs from November 9th to November 30th, 2013
Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
