Rami Maymon's installation was created during a two-month stay of the artist in Residence in Basel, having a constant dialogue with the exhibition space, which functions as a complex also containing a nightly dance club and a bar.
Within this context the exhibition deals with terms related to the night-life, intuitive senses of nightly wakefulness: music, sound and noise. Desire, seduction and illusion. Transience, doubt and sobriety/disillusion. The attempt to translate those sounds into a clear image, the voice into a vision and the transient and non-material into a sculptural mass, produces metamorphic images, dynamic particles of subconscious and the repressed, crystallizing into an utopian landscape.
Rami Maymon (*1976 in Tel Aviv) lives and works in Tel Aviv. Graduate BFA and MFA from the Departments of Photography and Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and the Cooper-Union New York. He received the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for the Arts (2004) and the Young Artist Award of the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2009). Maymon showed solo exhibitions at the Artists Studios Gallery, the Tal Esther Gallery, and the Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, at the 12th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy and at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Rami Maymon participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Maymon's work is characterized by refinement and restraint, juxtaposing photographic works and material installations in space, which turn out to be enigmatic and highly charged both formalistically and psychologically.
