Avner Shahaf | Children’s Talk

Curator: Chen Sheinberg
May 11, 2013 - Aug 3, 2013

Born in 1972, lives and works in Tel Aviv
Dream, 2012, video, 4:24 min.

Avner Shahaf’s work is based on a technique devised by the Surrealist Movement – the “exquisite corpse.” In this method, a group of people draws together an image of a person. Each member discreetly draws, in turn, a different part of the human body and then folds the paper over leaving only the edge of his or her drawing showing before passing it on to the next person. Passing from hand to hand, the piece of paper is folded over and over again and is gradually filled up. Finally, when the folded sheet is opened and straightened, the deformed and artificial figure is revealed – the “exquisite corpse.” The surrealists utilized this principle of chance to compose images devoid of any causal logic.

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