Leg Type – A Show in Five Acts
The Lobby Art Space
2019
The exhibition dialogues with Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex" (428 BCE), portraying various manifestations of fear. Wide-eyed visages with obstructed mouths (Chorus), the fettered feet of an infant displayed akin to forensic evidence (Oedipus infantis), a photograph of glassware resembling an eye socket that captures everything Jocasta prima), inexplicably running people (Curre! Curre! Curre!), and ultimately, a more visceral expression of terror -excrement in lowered feminine underwear (Jocasta altera).
The seeing eyes and the enucleated orbs explore, on one hand, the dread of seeing (knowledge), and on the other, voluntary blindness (willful ignorance) and blindness as punishment (the trauma of truth's revelation).
The gallery comprises three visible spaces and a fourth concealed area behind a purpose-built wall.
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Chorus, 2019.
A series of paintings portraying masks with excavated eye sockets.
spray paint on paper, paper cut, and wood. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Chorus, 2019.
spray paint on paper, paper cut, and wood. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
2019 Spray paint on paper, wooden construction with holes
2019 Spray paint on paper, wooden construction with holes
2019 Spray paint on paper, wooden construction with holes
2019 Spray paint on paper, wooden construction with holes
Oedipus infantis, 2019.
staged photograph depicting an infant's shackled feet positioned on a wooden structure reminiscent of an inverted pendulum.
Inkjet Pigment Print, wood construction. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Oedipus infantis (detail), 2019.
Inkjet Pigment Print.
Jocasta prima, 2019.
staged photograph of glassware, through which a vacant room is reflected in an inversion.
Inkjet Pigment Print, size. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Curre! Curre! Curre!, 2019
The external aspect of the work – a barren wall with a centrally located aperture for observation.
A hole in drywall. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Curre! Curre! Curre!, 2019
The external aspect of the work – a barren wall with a centrally located aperture for observation.
A hole in drywall. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Curre! Curre! Curre!, 2019
Video installation. The internal aspect of the work: Through the wall's aperture, one can observe a video work viewed via a system of mirrors. Observers peering through the opening witness figures running along a corridor.
drywall, mirrors, and a TV monitor. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
Curre! Curre! Curre!, 2019. one channel video-loop.
Curre! Curre! Curre!, 2019
work Simulation at Lobby Art Space.
Jocasta altera, 2019
Lowered feminine undergarments, containing a fecal deposit.
Concrete, undergarments and bronze casting. installation view of the exhibition at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv-Yafo. photo: Yigal Pardo.
