Things I’ve Seen From My Window Things I’ve Seen From My Window
Tel Aviv 2022
A loop as a means of depicting the deceptive situation halfway between routine life and being stuck is the point of departure for the exhibition’s works. On the one hand, the familiar and agreeable routine that offers comfort and security, and on the other hand, being stuck – a situation that progresses up to a certain point, then regresses back to the starting point over and over again, with no change or a clear exit.
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Looking through a window at the local reality, 13 artists describe what they see through their inner and professional world. Reality proves to be an uncomfortable substrate for life, rife with anxieties, stress, and questions. It leaves only two options – run away from it or describe it.
The works were created especially for this exhibition, as part of a series of sessions in which the artists met and shared the process of composing that which they saw from their window, reacted, and evolved. Some of the works use the GIF format invented some 35 years ago by Steve Wilhite, which enables repetitive movement through lossless data compression. Other works propose non-digital visual formats for the conceptual loop to inhabit, and some are even motionless.
The exhibition invites visitors to sit and linger, be engrossed by the different loops, experience the repetition and its inherent power. And then, to get up and move on to the next window.
