Rami Maymon (b.1976, Tel Aviv, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv. He gained both a BFA and an MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and also studied at the Cooper Union of Art and Science in New York.
Rami Maymon
Selected solo exhibitions: Night walk Home, Almacén Gallery, Jaffa, in collaboration with Fireflies Project (2022); Him(Self), Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (2019); Hunting West, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2018); Further Reading, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2015); Phonetic Transcription, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); Rudin Prize, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2014); Nystagmus, Munich Volkstheater (2014); Untitled (Dora Maar), Shpilman Institute, 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa (2012); White Night, Hinterhof, Basel (2011); Living Room, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012)
Selected group exhibitions: Reconstructed Deconstruction, Schonfeld Gallery, Brussels (2021); Traces VII, the 7th Biennale for Drawing, Artists House, Jerusalem (2019); Eiyna, Artvera’s Gallery, Geneva (2018); Erotic Salon, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (2018); Pyramida 2018, Dagon Archeological Museum, Haifa (2018); Under Arms, Fire and Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst and KW Berlin (2016); How is the Beast, 18th China International Arts Festival, the Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2016); A New Horizon for New Horizons, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (2016); Within Reach, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel (2016); Third Generation in Global Perspective, Amelie A. W. Gallery, SUNY college, New York (2015); This is the Land, Radical-Jung festival, Munich (2014); Moby Dick, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2013); Black Box, The 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa (2012); Provenance, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012); Mein Jerusalem - a performance, Roxy theater space, Basel, Switzerland (2011); The Tyranny of The Transparent, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv (2008); Soldiers, Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (2007); After, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva' Israel (2006)
Selected awards and grants: Israel Ministry of Science and Culture Prize (2015); Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israel Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2014); Rudin Prize for Emerging Photography, Norton Museum of Art (2014); Lottery Council for Culture and Art Award (2013); Critics Choice Award, Radical-Jung Festival, Munich (2013)
Maymon deconstructs and reconstructs photography, using images of objets d'art, reproductions, and page-spreads from art-history books which, combined with his own photographs, he arranges in various compositions. In a nod to the uncertainty of the medium's empirical authority, he takes a sculptural and performative approach to visual history, infusing his creative process into the already charged status of the selected images. His technique merges together existing visual texts with additional spheres of content, referencing materials that are external to the main text.
In his works, original image and reproduction are no longer distinct entities, but components in an ongoing process of constant reconsideration, which at once rejects the privileging of the finished image and casts re-appropriation as an act of semantic innovation. Reading the history of art through reproductions—which are traditionally meant to document and preserve past heritage—exposes the dynamic political forces that have facilitated changes in how we see things. Maymon is fascinated by the moment when image touches matter, photography brushes against design, and order turns into meaning. Juxtaposing art and the banality of life, Maymon's works engage with the viewer's mechanism of desire.
Night Walk Home / exhibition text , Hebrew text; Him-Self / exhibition text; Hunting West / exhibition text; Further Reading / catalog introduction; Interior-Living Room / exhibition text
Fireflies Project Films - Rami Maymon
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