UNNATURAL, 08.09.2012 – 04.11.12
Tomer Sapir and Michal Shamir at the exhibition Unnatural at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami.
Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
Opening: 08.09.12, 7pm-10pm
Tomer Sapir, slide from Research of the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index, 2010-2012, computer PPT, continues loop, photography by Elad Sarig and Hilit Kadouri
Unnatural will present scientific, romantic, conceptual, poetic, sensual and ecological conceptions of nature through a variety of strategies that reflect advances in technology in the twenty-first century. The works in the exhibition question conventional means and methods of representing the natural world and metaphorically embody both the paradoxical longing to fuse with nature and the threat embedded in such fusion. The works in Unnatural thus reflect a cultivated, synthetic, manipulated nature, which includes allusions to science as manifestations of a reality oscillating between the real and imaginary.
Read more about this exhibition in On View Magazine, p.63-71, featuring Tomer Sapir’s artwork as the article’s double spread header.