Wrong Path

The Israeli artist Yariv Spivak is showing expansive video installations at Perla-Mode. With his video camera, the artist wanders through Tel Aviv at night and observes people in mysterious and lonely situations. In the dirty streets of the multicultural and Mediterranean city, under the cover of darkness, Yariv Spivak discovers small scenes of personal or material misery, or nocturnal encounters that are also quite comical in their absurdity and poetic melancholy. The night has its own backdrop and its own magic, and the “White City” its shadows. The protagonists in Yariv Spivak’s video works feel safe in the darkness, while the observing camera remains motionless with its lens wide open. The artist with the silent camera and the viewer in the art space are voyeurs at a safe distance. The oversized projections of what is secretly filmed break the distance, blurring the boundary: are we in the middle or far away?
Yariv Spivak studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Wrong Path is his first exhibition outside of Israel.