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TAMI AMIT

Lives and works in Tel-Aviv, Israel
www.tamiamit.com

The mise en scene of Tami Amit’s photographs offers viewers dream-like variation, suggesting hallucination, fantasy

a striking encounter with an arresting series of images, and nightmare. Yet it is possible to see in these images a
evoking the most unsettling of Alfred Hitchcock’s films representation of the exhaustion of fiction. The relationship
(Vertigo) and the disquieting ambience of a David Lynch movie of Tami Amit’s photographs to fiction is situated primarily in
(Lost Highway). At times Amit’s photographs make explicit the photographer’s construction of a series of images that

reference to a body of literature that interrogates both image enhance the photographic image’s relationship with time;
and appearance, as in her series dedicated to Lewis Carroll’s prolonging, in this evocative dreamlike state, the fantasies
novel Alice in Wonderland. While detailed and sophisticated and the make-believe that these enactments provoke. Close
lighting draws the viewer into each photograph, perfectly observation of the roads, doors and windows that feature

conceived décor sets the scene for the models (actors or in some of Tami Amit’s recent photographs reveals their
professionals) who pose in stylised costumes, captivating representation as enigmatic entries into an unfolding universe
viewers with their expressivity. The artistry displayed in whose strange invitation to enter into the image entices the
the colour and artifice of these photographs creates a viewer into a parallel world, imaginary and invented.

90  PARKING, 2016 C-PRINT 59X47 IN. | 150X120 CM.  KIM, 2014 C-PRINT 35,5X23,5 IN. | 90X60 CM.