091013 Longing for Sight

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collaborators

Avi Pitchon

Dr. Michal PopowskyMeira Ascher

Alla Eisenberg

Daniel Bloom

Sammy Birnbach [DJ Morphuse]

Daan Masman

to be confirmed:

Moniek Toebosch (advisor)

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structureA large free form space will be designed, with the black space being built out of industrial felt, to light-proof an existing space

Hypersonic sound speakers and eowave sensors are used for the sound design and as triggers to involve observers prese

sensory experience in the dark space. The light hole is a proprietary design, including a curved space projector and sound s

video and sound sequence that is controlled through an online editor, external to the space. The dome is designed in such a

comfortable to be in, so that it may be a refuge also, a space where visitors can be for a while and rest. An ante-room provid

the dark space: the light is gradually dimmed so that visitors may become acclimatized to the dark. Prints and a limited editio

sale online and at the venue.



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a dark placeWe offer a place where unseen memories are collected. A place

of isolation and of expanse, where inner and outer meet. A place

that is so intimate that it needs to be shared. A place where you

can wander around and feel safe. A place to get lost in. A place

that allows you to be guided towards seeing beyond. A place to

rest in and to dare, where control and the loss of it are two sides

of the same coin. A place that acknowledges all the unseen, all

the disharmony, the edge. A place that is between death and life.

A playground for anyone so that the rules to which the world

operates can be rebuilt and wounds and scars can be healed. It

is a shameless place, where all pretenses can be dropped. A raw

place.



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a light hole

The light hole is a pre-sight space. It is a space where pre-conscious

memories, thememories containing fleeting, half conscious emotions,

the DNA of our essence aretranslated into images and sounds. If we

die, sounds linger longest, and in this light hole too it is what remains

with us most, after all the images have faded. The space is universal

and specific at the same time. This is its essence. It is a speechless

space, a light hole in a dark universe. When you listen, feel, touch, no

matter whether youre scared of going there or not, something will

present itself to you there. The light hole is the inner space in yourself,

already enlightened. It stands for places in our shared sub-conscious

that we constantly long for, that we are attracted to but don't know why

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beyond seeingIn a tradition of postmodern critique and in inspiration from Jacques Lacan, we ask what is it that the seen is hiding, and what blindspots

or otherwise, by the conventions of the visual? Are visual blindspots related to emotional ones? What is it that we distract ourselves from

The saturated visibility and sharpness of the conventional visual is distracting us from the validity of our subjective inner eye. Thus, our

photographs both seen and unseen set the scope and framework of this exhibition, where physical, conventional blindness serves as a

towards a proposition for a deeper sense of seeing. This encounter captures an intuition. The spoken word, present as an audio trail

that fleeting yet ever present depth, a void of realization that is visible in the visual as trails, hints signs left behind of that which is des

Object Petit a. Precluding sight invites the observer to transcend mere spectatorship; leave a mark, engage and entangle. Our invitatio

sight, therefore, also expresses the desire to push photography beyond eye-seeing. The photographic work is presented as a continuou

& match playground based on the infinite possibilities of interlacing one thought to another. This process contains no exclamation points

photographic stream moves according to its own inner rhythm. The tempo is subjective, not declarative. This work-process and its partic

reflects the desire to limit, blur and otherwise interfere with normal eyesight in order to attain that elusive, subtly subjective (and thus in

close to home) quality of movement, tone and volume a culmination of softness; the softness that unveils behind from, or is trapped b

This process led us towards abandoning the visual towards the touch and towards sound. Seeing becomes sensing. The blinding white

whiteness vibe, is expressed in the light hole at the heart of the exhibition. The structure of a white dome(alluding to snow blindness,

lunar landscape and to the shape of the eyeball) reveals a confined, secret space, flooded with light. Within it, images corresponding to

whiteness are screened on the domes inside.

Here, the journey to the source is completed.



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alex de jong

About two years ago i went blind and at first i thought that i wanted to kill myself.Of course the interesting thing was that i was a photog

felt like a stranger, a tourist, in the world of blindness and a stranger in the world of sight that i had just left.

I belonged no where, i was in a no-place all the time. Space around me dropped away, the feeling of my own body dropped away, and

went about slowly adapting itself to not eye-seeing, i became an ear, a hand, touch, became the wind on my skin and the rain, as i star

navigate an endless ocean. Until one day i thought that i could actually make photographs of what i felt under my feet. the guiding lines,

stones, anything that i could feel beneath me, my anchor to the earth. I found that i still loved the sound the shutter was making, even if

see my own photographs, that were slowly fading from my memory, one by one. Just like faces had started doing.

There is a dark space there, that only seems empty, but where everything is potential. A space of only becoming, everything flow, nothin

relative, a travel through time. sound carries this, and scent, and touch, the wind against the skin, a stolen bit of conversation, the sound

of thunder and of trees. That is a place where you cannot get to through only seeing. You have to look deeper, you have to look beyond

my images and hauled them and me into the light. At first I distrusted this, because keeping the photographer alive in me was such a ha

However what I hadnt counted on was tracing how this work, as a gesture both is touched and touches itself on the innermost lifestream

the heart, the way the mind perceives directly our own and others true nature. A dialogue is needed to bring this out, it needs the hands

people working to touch on everything that finds its place in the heart.



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laetitia boulud

Now its clear to me thatin my pre-sighted memory, I saw something that struck me. Something I shouldn't have seen. This froze my ey

and my being became alert. It is as if i saw a secret. That caused a feeling of loneliness, I've been looking for someone to tell a story to

since .

That moment determined my way of being. that alert sensor-like state leads me to longing for rest, and a search for that other being to e

me what that was, that i saw.

At first constructing the light hole was about frozen memories, icy, cold, white and harsh, blinding. It was the strongest structure that i w

somewhere I knew could melt, if I stayed there long enough, watching it and feeding it constantly. So there I lived a parallel, inner life wit

notion of sharpness, awareness, through the cracks of the light hole and the change in the light that was coming from the out side which

the time was complete darkness, the world of the "others".

Over time i met Alex. He has shared with me a way of looking at that by showing me his universe, the dark parts and the white hole. His

to keep the fire going while I take care of my inner self, and go into the light hole. Trusting in that sense is no issue, since I knew he has

my memories registered somewhere in his subconsciousness, as he had shot them before meeting me. This encouraged me to invite al

conscious presences to augment those vivid memories. The only difference was that I was no longer isolated.



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budget

7500 - Photographic Printing!

7500 - Audio production!

3000 - Video production!

3500 - Artistic Consultancy and advice!

9000 - Books, 20 copies, pre-sold, production of merchandize and catering!

5000 - Projection Dome

10000 - Space Design: industrial felt, sensors, software, programming, HSS system

45500 - Total!



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contact

Laetitia BouludTel Avivskype: letisation77

Alex de JongRotterdamskype: urbandiscou

seeingistouching@

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Laetitia BouludBorn 1975, Montral | Lives and Works in Tel-Aviv and Paris.

Education:1992-1997 "Camera Obscura". School of visual arts. Tel-Aviv. Israel

Solo Exhibitions:

2006- 'Photographix'. Gallerie Les Recreateurs. Paris2005- 'papa'. Studio M.G. Tel-Aviv2002- 'Paris, 2002, apetite!'. French institute Gallery. Tel-Aviv

Group exhibitions:

2009- 'Where The Fashion Is Art'. Rawart Gallery. Tel-Aviv2009- 'Plan B'. Primitive show room. Curators: Keren Bar-Gil & Dana Staiger. Tel-Aviv2008- 'Future repertoire'. Many institutes. Curator: Doron Polak. Tel-Aviv2008- 'Secret art project'. Many institute. Curator: Doron Polak. Tel- Aviv2008- 'nisuy kelim'. Curator Moran Shuv. Tel-Aviv2007- 'And then there is life'. Amahoro Gallery. Saint-Marten. West indies1997- 'Introducing teachers'. Dada Gallery. Tel-Aviv1995- 'White night'. Lilienbloom Space. Curators: Nir Nader & Erez Harodi. Tel-Aviv

Upcoming Exhibitions:

2010- 'Longing for Sight' with Alex De Jong. Artistic Advisor: Avi Pitchon.2010- 'Stranger Immigrant': Group Exhibition. Showing: Aim Deueluski .Tel-Aviv2010- 'From Sketchbook To Object'. Group Exhibition. Curator: Laetitia Boulud and Dr. Michal Popowsky

Publications:2008- A5 Magazine. portrait issue2007- White Book. L.B Publications

Alex de JongBorn 1963, born in The Netherlands | Lives in Rotterdam and Paris

Education:1984 - 1988 "Foto MTS" - Royal Academy of the Arts, The Hague1988 - 1993 Leiden University, SOAS London - PhD. Indo-Iranian Langu

Solo exhibitions:2004-tales from the goatshed- Amsterdam2006-Actes de Dcs - Rotterdam2007-immortals- SIME, Stockholm

Group exhibitions:2005-KADK5 - Kunst Aan de Kade, Rotterdam2006-KADK6 - Kunst Aan de Kade, Rotterdam2006-Rotterdam, May 14th - Kunst Aan de Kade Rotterdam

Multimedia/Digital1999-Lifetree -Pulse, Amsterdam2000-Dottism - Dottism w/ 180 Agency2000/2001-SCATTER CRYSTALS - Consultancy Performance Art - M2004- Scanr - Czar/CCCP, Amsterdam2007-L1v0nl1ne - Digital Immortality Machine - w/ Academy of Arts

Video2007-The Internet Is Making Us Immortal. Result, Sweden

Publications:1996-Maar U Ziet Er Helemaal Niet Joods Uit Vassallucci, Amsterda1997-Machos en Prinsessen Vassallucci, Amsterdam2006- Flnerie, a Mala of Photographs, Artbook, Rotterdam

Upcoming Shows:2010-"Longing for sight" with Laetitia Boulud; Artistic Advisor: Avi Pitch2010-''From Stranger to Immigrant": Showing: Aim Deualuski .Tel-Aviv

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