The Israeli artist Yariv Spivak is showing a spatial installation consisting of several video projections at Perla-Mode.
The artist wanders through Tel Aviv at night with his camera and observes people in enigmatic and lonely situations. In the dirty streets of the multicultural and Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv, 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 appear absorbed in what they are doing. They 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, observing from a safe distance. But the oversized projections of the secretly filmed events break the distance, blurring the boundary: are we in the middle or outside?
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.