Jan Tichy | The Rear
Curator: Joshua Simon | Artistic Director: Dalia Levin
Sep. 23, 2007 - Dec. 15, 2007
Bats, 2007, slide show, 8 minutes loop
The series was shot over five years of night-time strolling in the streets of Tel-Aviv. What started as an encounter between the artist who works at night and the nocturnal creatures, developed into planned encounters, as Tichy assumed the role of the hunter, identifying bats traces and tracking them back to their habitat. The bats’ habitat in the photographs are the streets of Tel-Aviv, given away by the familiar Bauhaus aesthetics, the typical blinds and indigenous plants. The shuttered windows reoccur in the photographs not only as an architectural referent, but double a threshold image, delineating the border between worlds: the night and its creatures out in the streets, and the domestic space.
