Arik Levy and Guy Yana
12 Mar - 04 May 2012
ARIK LEVY AND GUY YANA
12 March - 4 May, 2012
"The triumph of vegetation is total" - Michel Houellebecq. When we zoom too far in on the map, all we can see is the slow decay of our physical world. Death is everywhere. This view is unbearable. If we zoom too far out from the territory, everything becomes superficially beautiful, organized and ordered. It is the actual territory that always wins. This triumph, this victory, this war, is where the representation will always fail. This immense contradiction is the common basis for the work of Arik Levy and Guy Yanai: the knowledge that the slow processes of nature will always win, will always crush everything. And yet, we must create, and it's specifically from this starting point that we must begin, that our efforts are profoundly superficial and futile.
12 March - 4 May, 2012
"The triumph of vegetation is total" - Michel Houellebecq. When we zoom too far in on the map, all we can see is the slow decay of our physical world. Death is everywhere. This view is unbearable. If we zoom too far out from the territory, everything becomes superficially beautiful, organized and ordered. It is the actual territory that always wins. This triumph, this victory, this war, is where the representation will always fail. This immense contradiction is the common basis for the work of Arik Levy and Guy Yanai: the knowledge that the slow processes of nature will always win, will always crush everything. And yet, we must create, and it's specifically from this starting point that we must begin, that our efforts are profoundly superficial and futile.