Leigh Orpaz | The Present Continuous | 24/7

Curator: Ran Kasmy-Ilan
Jan. 16, 2016 - Apr. 30, 2016

The end of the world does not lurk in the future, nor has it already transpired in the past. It is happening at this very moment. The barely hidden attraction to disaster obscures the fact that true catastrophe is not an event. The world does not end with a bang. Rather, it fades, frays, and fragments. The reasons for this are rooted in the past, but are so far removed from the ongoing present they seem like sheer whimsy. If the end is already behind us, then the future is merely a chain of repetitions. The question regarding the “next big thing” is merely a weak denial of the question as to what was the “last big thing.” The core of the work produced by Leigh Orpaz (b.1977, USA; lives in Tel Aviv) lies in the fraying seams of the contemporary age. Familiar elements and selected forms that have been isolated and arranged anew like a kind of incessant signalling from the subconscious – a melody that gets stuck in your mind, trapped in the twilight between memory and imagination. Heard only once, it continues to play over and over again within us. It is experienced as a continuous internal present, not as a memory of an external melodic experience.

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