Boaz
Aharonovitch
Boaz Aharonovitch (b. 1970) completed his photography studies with honors at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where he also continued on to his MFA studies. In 2002 and 2004, he was awarded the Sharett Scholarship, in 2003 he won the Rami Halperin Prize, and in 2005 he received the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture’s Young Artist Award and the Rich Foundation Award for Excellence. Aharonovitch has exhibited around the world, and his works are included in major private and public collections.
‘Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover’ is an ongoing photo-diary documenting a gardening project that took place in my studio. I have been building an ever-changing garden in my South Tel Aviv studio since 2011. The garden is comprised of flowers, vegetation, and containers that I have collected from my immediate surroundings. The plants that I cultivated have been staged to create intricate compositions which I then photographed. The photo-diary series arising from this process is a meditation on the ephemerality of the garden as a metaphor for the passage of time and longing. The garden is dedicated to an unknown lover.
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Boaz Aharonovitch (b. 1970) completed his photography studies with honors at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where he also continued on to his MFA studies. In 2002 and 2004, he was awarded the Sharett Scholarship, in 2003 he won the Rami Halperin Prize, and in 2005 he received the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture’s Young Artist Award and the Rich Foundation Award for Excellence. Aharonovitch has exhibited around the world, and his works are included in major private and public collections.