Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel | 2010

Mr. Bones is a dog that his homeless owner believes in the existence of heavenly wonderland, named Timbuktu, a souls’ oasis – “there you unite with the universe, there you are a nonmaterial dot that resides in God’s mind”. This is not a concrete Timbuktu, a salt trading city in the Mali desert, in west Africa, but rather a Timbuktu of the end of the history.

Having a dialogue with Paul Auster, that is having a mind stream monologue through the main characters of his book “Timbuktu”, at their last journey in life.

During his travels to Paris, London and Alaska, accumulating personal experiences, sketches, drawings and video clips, that translates to a group of objects that touches human situations, ranges from serene to annoying, from romantic to estranged.

The objects, drawings and video clips, deals with enigmatic human situations, by slow repetitive motions. The camera is focused on single continuing event, in a mode of “focused staring”, sometimes intrusive, on an un-staged random scene.  The transfer from sketches to videos and then to objects happens through a form search process that aimed to translate human postures and one time emotional experiences.

Curator: Anat Benvenisti Ezri Tarazi