Yuval Yairi

Yuval Yairi

Zemack Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv
New York: Andrea Meislin Gallery

Text from Palaces Of Memory exhibition, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY:Following in the path of Simonides of Ceos (Kea), the Greek Poet and father of mnemonics, Yairi proposes that images are oftentimes easier to remember than abstract ideas or words. In order to remember large amounts of knowledge, people create places, either real or fantastic, within their imaginations. These "Palaces of Memory," as an idea and a term both over two thousand years old, are where one locates the mental images that symbolize the things they chose to remember. The process of remembering takes place as a "journey" through these spaces created by the mind. Yuval Yairi works by an artistic process that mimics the natural process of memory. After choosing a space to photograph, the artist works meticulously frame by frame, moving the camera only slightly each time. In this way, for hours or days, he collects the details of the space into the camera's memory. The physical space becomes a part of both the natural memory of the artist and the artificial memory of the camera. When the artist later combines different parts of the space into one picture, it is a proc...

Born 1961
1984-1988 Visual Arts studies, Wizo-Hadassa, Haifa

Selected exhibitions:
2013 Collecting Dust, Contemporary Israeli Art, Group exhibition, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2013 LAND, solo exhibition, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2013 Regards féminins 2013, Group Exhibition, The first station gallery, Jerusalem
2012 Wonderland, Group exhibition, Chagall Artists House, Haifa
2012 Summer Solstice, Group exhibition, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
2012 A visual journey through imagination, Group exhibition, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA
2012 Nomansland: Trilogy of Journeys, Group exhibition, The Petach Tikva Museum
2011 Visit Nomansland, Art Event, Jerusalem
2011 Roundabout - Face to Face, group exhibition, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2011 Kept in Memory, 2-man exhibition, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
2011 Venice:Mémoire, group exhibition, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 Escape, group exhibition, Artists House, Tel-Aviv
2011 WORK (The Israel Museum Renewal Project), Solo Exhibition, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2011 Life: A user's Manual, group exhibition, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 New in Photography: Recent Acquisitions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Purity & Danger, group exhibition, Zemack Con...