MOSHE CHEN

In this work, I placed a hyper-realistic doll of an homeless figure on a bench on Ben Gurion Street, Tel Aviv. Which was recorded in a closed circuit for 24 hours.

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The work deals with the boundaries between attractive and repulsive, between the visible and the invisible, between truth and false, an object with a presence in space versus an almost transparent and insignificant and the gap between them, between background and foreground and change perception.

 

Trying to examine how a given material that represents an image that is common in the urban landscape, yet on the border of the invisible and detached from all morals and conscience, undergoes a rapid metamorphosis process and becomes a spontaneous and attractive attraction.

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The work is intended to be presented in  in a gallery space, but is not intended for continuous viewing from beginning to end. Due to its length and the low stimulus threshold that gives the viewer until the moment of catharsis, (when an ambulance with MDA medics arrives, 8:40 minutes), but to constitute a copy of the situation, which is imported into the gallery space.