Hila Laviv
Tami Amit - “Room service”
14.02.04-20.03.04

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Hila Laviv
Laviv’s installation is composed of black crepe paper saw, hanging-hovering in the space like shirts on a cord. Some may find in the paper image, bound to the wall with sellotape, reminiscences of popular Sukkah’s decorations; others will see in it more classical signs (from Matisse to Kara Walker(. Hila Laviv (b. 1975) graduated from the Hamidrasha School of Art. In 2003 She had exhibitions at the Gallery of Hamidrasha and at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art.

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Tami Amit - “Room service”
In her photographs series “Room service”, Tami Amit connects sexuality to death, showing girls, most of them porno actresses in their early 20s, with submissive bodies and platinum-blond wigs. In Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Vertigo”, Scottie (James Stewart) embroiders an impossible sexual fantasy: he desires a body. The girls on Amit’s photographs, like ready for dismantling and re-assembling, remind us of Scottie’s attempt to re-create a woman “as in his wishes”. Tami Amit (b. 1972) graduated from the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and the Parsons School of Design, Paris/New York. She had exhibitions in the Museum of Ramat Gan for Israeli Art (1998), in the Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002) and at the Kunsthuis de Permanente Gallery in Groningen (Netherlands) and the Galerie Air de Paris in Paris in 2001. She participated to group shows in the Galerie Praz-Delavallade in Paris in 2002 and in the Galerie Catherine Bastide in 2003.

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