Barak Levi Olins
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Barak Olins, 16mm film still Giclee print What of the Ashes, 2004 |
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two-sided photo transfer on rice paper, montage, 2004 |
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16mm film still Giclee print, 2005 |
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two-sided photo transfer on rice paper, montage, 2004 |
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two-sided photo transfer on rice paper, montage, plexiglass and steel hinged frame, 2005 |
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two-sided photo transfer on rice paper, Letraset, montage, plexiglass and steel hinged frame, 2005 |
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two-sided photo transfer on rice paper, Letraset, montage, plexiglass and steel hinged frame, 2005 |
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16mm film still Giclee print from What of the Ashes, 2004 |
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16mm film still Giclee print from POLISH, 2005 |
I am a bread-baker by trade. My artwork derives from an unsettling recognition that my wood-fired brick oven is in many ways indistinguishable from the crematoria of Auschwitz and that I have, strangely,found myself working next to a machine that so closely resembles an icon of vast destruction. What would it mean to bake bread in these ovens? How might I consider the space and slippage
between life-providing and life-reducing in such machinery? And further, how does the mechanics of memory and its inevitable blurring and compression with the present, further complicate this quandary? I like that this remains unsettled, that it offers and maybe even insists on its own questioning.
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