Pocket Prints (2011)

From the exhibition Walter Benjamin: Exilic Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Curators: Raphael Zagury Orly and Noam Segal

Series of 6 sheets of printer paper, which have been folded and compressed to fit four pockets of a pair of denim pants, which was purchased and worn throughout a two-week trip in the United States. The sheets have been spread out and framed, while each side exposed to the denim fabric has been stained with its color. This work was presented alongside the series The Golden Section, 2016, a 10-piece series of B 1-size ( 100/70 cm.) sheets of paper, which have been sliced according to the golden section principle by fingers dipped in ink. The sections have been rearranged on top of the largest remainder in the typical forms of commercial presentation of paper. The golden section is a calculation method, which allows cutting sheets so that the proportions of width and length will in fact be maintained across every piece to infinity. The combination of the mathematical method with the random appearance of the fingerprints created new shapes and rules, referring to the relation between the two approaches together.

Both series have been presented in a show dedicated to the work of Walter Benjamin at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in cooperation with the Benjamin Estate and Archive.