Autodafé

The 11th of January 2010, I will finally destroy all the original negatives from the serie, about seventeen films of 36 BW exposures each. After working for more than a year on that project, it appears to me that it is necessary to bring the attention of a certain public about the signification of this action. More than a year of work, two trips for the shooting, an incredible amount of contacts with public and private institutions for... NOTHING concrete. The paradoxe is the gap between the huge appreciation this work received and the no policy of engagement from the various structures supposed to encourage creation, and artists. Without getting into the full details with a list of all stories related to that, I would like to bring some explanations. I admit that I accepted a certain amount of free publications in order to give the maximum of visibility to that work, before I finally realized the systematic vampirism from all structures interested into the work I produced. Through all my contacts, the work was seen as extremely positive and significant, even necessary but the answer was always the same: "we're sorry but we have no budget to pay you". What used to be the limits of the system apparently became A system... That lead to the hanging of a part of serie at the Museum of Modern Art in Tel-Aviv for three months, at the exibition of the complete serie at the headquater of the most important israeli insurance compagny for two months, at numerous publications in a ...



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