Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
This work by Yael Efrati is composed of interlocking pavement stones produced by Akerstein Industries, which are omnipresent in the Israeli urban landscape. The play with various shades of stone creates an image that can only be perceived from a distance. Based on a gigantic enlargement of a detail from a photograph of the artist's parents, the image depicts both her father and mother smiling self-consciously at the camera. Efrati has rendered the personal monumental, while simultaneously transforming the public sphere into a private one; paradoxically, this form of distancing amplifies the intimate quality of the original image. The assignment of a new function to the banal pavement stones, and their transformation into such a personal image, have a magical effect: the intimate, familiar memory flickers like a fata morgana on the city pavement.
This work is exhibited as part of the exhibition "FATAMORGANA."
Born in Herzliya, 1978; lives and works in Tel Aviv