Yair
Barak
Yair Barak (b.1973) is an Israeli artist, Curator and writer. Graduated (Cum Laude) from the Camera Obscura School of art, Tel Aviv and studied for MFA at Bard College, New-York. Barak works around photography and video installation. His oeuvre, raising up questions of historiography, memory and the boundaries of the medium were exhibited widely in Israel and Europe and are kept amongst important collections worldwide. In 2005 Barak has established the photography department in Minshar for arts in Tel-Aviv and today chairs the fine arts department Hakibutzim college. In 2014 The Tel Aviv Museum of art held a major solo exhibition titled Moving away from something he stares at, accompanied by a book with the same title. Barak is a recipient of the Ministry of culture award (2012), The America-Israel fund (2001,2002) and was granted Outset grant as well as The Israeli Lottery grant and was supported by The Ostrovsky Family Fund for cinema and video.
Imagine a flood of images;
Imagine a chest, full of drawers; Imagine images jumping into a chest full of drawers;
Imagine images jumping from one drawer to the other, mixing, melting, engaging, disconnecting;
Imagine opened, empty drawers that were once full of images.
My work over the last 20 years, is dialectic research of various systems. Through diverse means of photography, video, and installation, I raise questions pertaining to history, power mechanisms, Western aesthetics and the photographic medium and its boundaries.
Most of my images have an enigmatic sense, bringing into question the ability of an image to tell a story or deliver knowledge. For over two decades I’ve established a complicated syntax, set up as a visual ontology.
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Yair Barak (b.1973) is an Israeli artist, Curator and writer. Graduated (Cum Laude) from the Camera Obscura School of art, Tel Aviv and studied for MFA at Bard College, New-York. Barak works around photography and video installation. His oeuvre, raising up questions of historiography, memory and the boundaries of the medium were exhibited widely in Israel and Europe and are kept amongst important collections worldwide. In 2005 Barak has established the photography department in Minshar for arts in Tel-Aviv and today chairs the fine arts department Hakibutzim college. In 2014 The Tel Aviv Museum of art held a major solo exhibition titled Moving away from something he stares at, accompanied by a book with the same title. Barak is a recipient of the Ministry of culture award (2012), The America-Israel fund (2001,2002) and was granted Outset grant as well as The Israeli Lottery grant and was supported by The Ostrovsky Family Fund for cinema and video.