Real Moment

Adi Bezalel’s works might appear to be a collection of coincidental photographs: body parts, landscapes, interiors, an airplane and various objects. Indeed, the series is not based on a specific theme but is rather an assembly of memories, comprised of an array of personal images with an inner connection speaking in Bezalel’s personal language to the same external world.
The photographs enhance our ability to see the reality beyond the shutter, like exposure to a bright, expanding light – a thin ray of light shining from under a closed door in a dark room.
Like waves, the works rise, conceal and retreat to the “serenity” before, uniting the external reality with the internal being, merging sleep and dream with reality and awakening.
The plane and the sleeping girl travel from one end to the other both physically (from one end of the world to another) and metaphysically – moving between different states of awareness, though remaining in both at the same time. With one swift motion the plane takes us through the blue sky to different realms in the twilight zone, between the real and the fantastic, between the ability to see and discern and the ability to create and believe. The crucifix embedded on the plane’s red tail takes us over a poppy field. Is it a reflection, a translocation or a creation? This crusade in space symbolizes the various signs and ways of reading the reality of our surroundings: to look up or down, to focus on the here-and-now, on the close-at-hand or the distant, to look beyond the horizon, beyond the visible, into the inconceivable. The slope’s curves cry out to stop and dream. To walk through the hidden passages into what is beyond our comprehension; to a different universe that allows us moments of grace.
Thus, a single point in time and space becomes a story embodied in a framed photograph: a moon in a dark sky above a horizon less line of landscape, a pale light from a lamp shining on a papered wall, a necklace hovering over an open neckline.
It is a journey from image to image, from concrete scenes to scenes of an imagined reality. They are a collection of few moments out of innumerable ones; moments which the eye can see but cannot “understand” thus it pauses to consider for a moment. The photography captures the moment and allows us to study the same moments again and again, processing the visual experience, poetically phrasing it into an image that steps beyond the borders of perpetuation of the moment – transforming it into immortality.

Israel Rabinovitz