Mitraḥeḳ mi-mashehu, noʻets bo et ʻenaṿ
Subtitle: Moving away from something he stares at
By: Yaʻir Baraḳ ; taʻarukhah, otseret, Nili Goren ; ḳaṭalog, ʻorekhet, Nili Goren
Contributors: Goren, Nili, writer of added text; Dorfman, Eran, writer of added text; Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut
Series: Ḳaṭ -- 20/2014; Ḳaṭ. (Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut) -- 2014/20.
Publisher: Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tel Aviv
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9789655391008
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography
Other titles: Moving away from something he stares at
Work titles: Photographs
Description: "In the past fifteen years, Yair Barak has created a wide, consolidated body of work that places him with the most interesting and important voices of Israeli photography. His current exhibition displays an extensive creative range whose photographic context reflects an intensive study of power, institutional historical representations and the visual and ideological nature of photography. Alongside works that conform to traditional photographic genres, Barak "invades" territories of installation and sculpture, thus extending the discourse of his work. The riddle Barak offers in his photographs requires deep study and careful reading, summoning the viewer on to a fascinating journey in the kingdom of imagery, in the world of the concept within the maze of Western culture. The exhibition, which enfolds great beauty together with serene melancholy, opens with the sound of many waters gushing into a lake, and closes with a disconcerting silence that echoes over a long line of poetic photographs: some are direct, with a simplicity that asserts random, seemingly void encounters between gaze and object, whereas others are unraveled and disrupted, demanding from the viewer careful untangling and deciphering"--From artist's web page.
Notes: Pagination follows the Hebrew reading direction, from right to left.

Published to accompany the exhibition of Yair Barak's Moving away from something he stares at, that appeared 7 October 2014 - 7 February 2015 at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Sculpture Gallery, Main Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Hebrew and English translation.

Added essays by Nili Goren and Eran Dorfman.