Wrong Path

With his video camera, Israeli artist Yariv Spivak wanders through Tel Aviv at night and observes people in enigmatic and lonely situations. In the dirty streets of the multicultural and Mediterranean city, under the cover of darkness, the artist discovers scenes of personal or material misery, or nocturnal encounters that are also quite comical in their 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 still camera and the viewer in the art space are voyeurs at a safe distance. Yariv Spivak shows expansive video installations in the rooms of Perla-Mode. 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, Jerusalem and lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Wrong Path is his first exhibition outside of Israel.