Masha Yozefpolsky

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The Verge 2004

Sculptured promenade
kibbutz Yiron, Galilee

aluminum, Tiger wood, iron, concrete
40 x 70 x 600 cm

Photographs of kibbutz Yiron’s doors are bisected and assembled at random into images of new unreal doorways – hybrids of fragments.

 

These images are burnt into aluminum plates and attached to slanting units of red Tiger wood. The accumulating sum of 150 units create a whole – a platform slightly raised off the ground.

 

The Verge is a signifier of a certain collapse and negligence of the Socialist social ideal, yet concurrently enfolding the desire for its preservation or reconstruction, however ironic, fragmented and unreal it might be.

 

The Verge is a critical reflection of an absent home with it’s doors’ split verge, a portrait of time present where one lacks a proper ideological path