Itay Ziv | Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art

Curators: Dalia Levin, Daria Kaufmann and Ghila Limon
Sep. 8, 2012 - Dec. 29, 2012

Born in Israel, 1976
Never Miss a Sunset, 2011, video animation, 1:15 min.

For this work, Itay Ziv gathered Internet photographs of the sun slipping into the sea, and edited them into a collection of sunsets. The Internet may be described as the contemporary phenomenon that most closely approximates a cabinet of wonder – a sphere where new kinds of curiosities, surprising film flicks, impossible photographs, and fascinating information are constantly being accumulated.

איתי זיו

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