Yaron Lapid

(from "The New Hero") © Yaron Lapid


(from "The New Hero") © Yaron Lapid


(from "The New Hero") © Yaron Lapid


(from "The New Hero") © Yaron Lapid


Yaron Lapid Graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2007 with MFA Fine Art

“The New Zero”

“The New Zero is an ongoing artistic project, which plays on the nature of photography and its ability to assemble and disassemble layers of history.
In 1999 Yaron Lapid found on the floor of a recently demolished area in Jerusalem, several envelopes. The envelopes contained hundreds of black and white photographs and negatives, which were probably the leftovers of a former photographic studio.
The artist has reprocessed the found material to create an atypical “family album” composed of moving portraits that fluidly fade into black before revealing their main features. 
By reversing the conventions of documentary editing, the video focuses on marginal details such as body posture, clothes and accessories to suggest the habits and costumes of Jerusalem in the 70s, providing hints of the atmosphere of that time.
The loop reinforces the sense of a stratified past that cannot be pictured at once, but has slowly informed the layers of this multifaceted society. A society in which the most basic human encounter, eye to eye, is not always effortless and where formal differences often mark profound cultural oppositions. 
These photographs, which have crystallised a particular moment of individual histories, form a visual archive whose gaps can be filled by the viewer’s imagination and inner projections.”

(Adopted from a text by Gaia Tedone)

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