26 May 2005

Ruti Nemet

Daylight

Dvir Gallery is proud to announce the opening of the new solo show of Ruti Nemet, "Daylight".

The exhibition is centered on painting affined to documentary photography, and on informal photography related to abstract painting. It features realistic scenes from the life of what appears to be a nature reserve, and fragments of water and rocks photographed at the Ein Gedi reserve. Varying in each of the paintings, this scene links the static nature of the painting as an object and that of the pictorial image and the content represented in the image (mainly dead animals). At the same time, the documentary-realistic aspect of the show does not form a part of an exploration of a certain social order, nor can it be reduced to a possibility of representing something in its absence; rather, it is the ability to dissociate presence from the jaws of being, so as to turn it to the world as a preliminary notice about a future occurrence. Hence one may also consider the fact that the margins of the paintings function as a palette that seemingly unravels their edges, returning the painterly image to the present, namely – re-exposing it to the temporal element whose essence is movement toward destruction.

From Ory Dessau, Day for night, Studio Magazine (Issue 160).

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