Duty Free
ZIZ Gallery, 2013
Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh
Photos: Youval Hai
ZIZ Gallery, 2013
Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh
Photos: Youval Hai
Duty Free
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In the installation Duty Free Adi Dulza converts the functional passageway of a corridor in the office floor on which ZIZ Gallery is located into a sacred site – a place of pilgrimage. The rolls of photo wallpaper featuring prints of pastoral-synthetic views of golden beaches with palm trees in sunset or breathtaking snowy peaks, dangle from the corridor's ceiling and along its walls. From between the layers of wallpapers appear glimpses of objects, photographs, and collages of historical structures, archeological sites, and canonical and contemporary artworks. Adi Dulza creates an encyclopedic collage that recounts a multicultural and chaotic narrative of fabricated history in a made-up landscape. Through a play of revealing and concealing, through synthesized nature inlaid with fragments from history, culture, and art, he leads the viewer towards a spiritual climax, to the transcendental experience of standing before the heavenly light (of the neon). The formal and chromatic excess alongside an overdose of visual "trash", surrender the weakness of the image in a consumer era of plenty and surplus, and at the same time points at the spiritual and religious potential embodied in it.
Sally Haftel Naveh
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