Rami Maymon’s installation “Surround” emerged as a result of observation and examination of the concrete wall on which it is mounted. That wall, the first surface the visitor encounters when he enters the museum’s space, is an inseparable part of Yaacov Rechter’s architectural design of the 1975 structure, which functions partly as a museum and partly as a memorial monument for fallen soldiers. Maymon’s works function like samples of the patched perforated concrete, reverberating back into the biography of the finished photographs. With his camera lens Maymon captures both everyday moments as well as ethereal moments. Mold and decay on an old photograph correspond with a faraway galaxy seen in a different photograph. One image overlaps another, transforming it as though the photographs were randomly mixed, blending into a different genetic code.

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