Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
Dutch photographer and video artist Erwin Olaf has been working since the late 1980's and gained recognition on the global art scene in the last few years - mainly for his provocative photographs of bizarre figures simultaneously enticing, eccentric and repellent. His preoccupation with the post-human body is also featured in his video works, which enlarge the scope of his still photographs. His films (such as Le dernier cri (2006), shown on the first floor) which can be understood as "horror comedies" devoid of all emotion and desire, allude heavily to 1970's cinema and act as a parable of the human condition at the dawn of the third Millennium. Moving Targets (2005) melds different heavily made-up faces in states of extreme emotional agitation reminiscent of clowns or jokers.
This work is exhibited as part of the exhibition "Wild Exaggeration: The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art".