NYAB Event - Ilit Azoulay “a 7th option.”

Ilit Azoulay “a 7th option.”

Andrea Meislin Gallery

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Andrea Meislin Gallery announces a 7th option, Ilit Azoulay’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition is presented concurrently with the artist’s participation in Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA).

The two related pieces that will be shown simultaneously at MoMA and at Andrea Meislin Gallery — Shifting Degrees of Certainty and 7th option — are the result of the artist’s 2013 residency at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (KW). During the residency Azoulay embarked on an extensive process of historical and archival research of buildings across Germany.

Collecting and photographing objects and architectural fragments from the various sites she visited, Azoulay created Shifting Degreesof Certainty, an installation of 85 custom-framed photographs arranged in a puzzle-like constellation which Azoulay refers to as the map, spanning nine meters (29.5 feet), and accompanied by a sound entry for each piece. This expansive installation at MoMA functions as a visual inventory of the artist’s research while in Germany. It is from this visual inventory, or lexicon, that Azoulay constructed four new panoramas –which she refers to as options– including 7th option — an eleven meter (37.5 feet) panoramic work.

On the occasion of her exhibition at Andrea Meislin Gallery Ilit Azoulay will release a publication featuring a selection of fragments and objects with their related stories, as they appear in the work Shifting degrees of Certainty. Some of the objects that originally served to compose 7th option are now singled out and rearranged in a portable exhibition in the form this publication.

This language of documentation draws awareness to the ways in which history is structured, determined, organized, and perhaps manipulated. Believing that architecture holds the histories of a place, Azoulay in her photographs combines insignificant forgotten objects and fragments of architecture encountered in everyday experiences, exploring ideas of destruction and conservation and new possibilities for visual and historical narratives. In the choice of digital photography as her artistic medium, Azoulay is commenting on the mechanisms of photography and exhibit-making to alter our experiences.