‘RESET’ - The Lab, Tel Aviv.
From the text of Sharon Toval, the curator of the exhibition:
“The multi-medium installation "RESET" explores visual abstraction and offers a minimalist architectural and alternative space. Roni Ben Porat transformed The Lab space into a bright, hazy white "place - Nonplace", in which she created retreat corners, experiential lingering. Visitors are invited to stay in it without expectation. The new transformed space is an expression of an artistic act without aesthetic artifacts.
Roni Ben Porat rebuilt the laboratory space and turns it into a bright, hazy white aisle space, built by structures that allow the audience to sit, stare, listen to the immersive frequencies that the sound created by artist Nir Jacob Younessi put together in honor of the new installation. Ben Porat is fulfilling an artistic fantasy , which only The Lab laboratory could afford to realize. The installation is an illustration of the artist's thoughts on boundaries, on the body and its expressive movements in white silence. The contrast between movement and freezing functions as a mirror that reflects to the visitors their soul, their own ability to stare and simply be.
Roni raises questions about herself and her status in the art world. In general she wants to present us with a mirror, and to ask about the state of humanity in a world that is changing at a dizzying pace and losing its human values. Will we be able to instill our human values into the artificial intelligence that transcends our education? RESET invites us all to meditation, staring, lingering and thinking about ourselves and mother earth.”
CLICK HERE for the full text by the curator Sharon Toval (Hebrew).
CLICK HERE for the Art critic published in Haaretz by Avi Pitchon (Hebrew).
Installation view and video: Doron Oved
