{"id":1939,"date":"2022-03-30T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artists.wwwnlsrc4.supercp.com\/?post_type=exhibitions&p=1939"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:50:10","slug":"machines-room","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/exhibitions\/machines-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Machines Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

4th Exhibition in the 15th Nidbach Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

The necessity to be seen as an everyman chafes at selfhood.\u201d *<\/p>\n

– \u201cHave you seen this Red, what has happened Yotam?\u201d
\n– \u201cNoa, I don\u2019t sleep much\u201d
\n(From a conversation with Yotam, November 2008.)<\/p>\n

When Yotam started photographing, he used to wait two hours to shoot a landscape, two hours to shoot a lizard. He photographed animals, butterflies, colchicums, reptiles he met, insects he saw. The desire to photograph came from a love of nature.
\nIn the room where he grew up he raised grasshoppers, scorpions, sparrows, turtles, tortoises, more than a few types of snakes, more than a few types of butterflies. He fed porcupines, collected bats nurtured caterpillars, identified butterfly eggs on leaves, moved them from an old leaf to a new one, from an old leaf to a new one. He thought: \u201cI will study Biology, and continue to photograph\u201d.
\nNow, Yotam lives in a \u201croom-non-room, on the third and a half floor\u201d, sharing a wall with the machine room of the communal elevator, and \u201cthe machine is actually always there, beyond the wall\u201d. He photographs body organs inside a room and room organs inside a body.
\nHe grafts animal bones to fingertips, inserts a pipe into a mouth, removes a pipe out through nostrils, places a mouth in a plumbing pipe, tightens a mouth on a vacuum cleaner pipe, glues a butterfly wing to a finger, sticks a finger in paste, threads a hand out of a pair of trousers, sticks a finger in a cactus, bursts fingertips out of a space between door and floor.
\nYotam says that the loneliness is essential for his photographs. That what is created and comes from him is purely the result of his being alone in a room, and otherwise it could not be so.
\nRoom and Camera \u2013 might evoke the world which lies within the skull. (Noa Sadka)<\/p>\n

*David Fogel, journal segment, 25.5.1919. From: David Fogel, \u201cKol HaShirim\u201d \u2013 collected with preface by Dan Pagis, Agudat HaSofrim press, 1966, p. 13 [Hebrew].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8323,"template":"","categories":[108],"artists":[1063,1068],"exhibition":[1065,1069],"curator":[1067,1070],"years":[458],"class_list":["post-1939","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nidbach-en","artists---en","artists-yotam-dvir","exhibition----15-en","exhibition-machines-room","curator---en","curator-sadka-noa","years-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}