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drora SPitz

lives and works in Haifa, Israel

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.drora-spitz.com

Trespassing from time into space and beyond,
touching the simplest, most authentic
sensations while contemplating life in motion;
sailing between traditional photography
and abstraction – Drora’s artistic career is
depicted in “light Space Time” Drora Spitz
Photographs 1968-2009, a book that crowns
forty years of work as a creative experimental
photographer. Drora’s professional life is
entwined with art and architecture. As
director of photography and teacher at the
Faculty of Architecture in Technion, Haifa,
she first worked with Artist Itzhak Danziger
on his book “Makom" /("Place”). The result
was a series of conceptual photographs
which, in Israeli culture, stand out as the
most elementary expression of the familiar
spatial place. A solo exhibition at the
Israel Museum in Jerusalem, with desert
landscapes and growing forests, produced
using development processes and techniques
that preceded digitization by two decades,
gained Drora first recognition (at age 27). Her
work has since evolved in various directions.
The layered technique she used during the
70’s and 80’s to separate grays from black
and white negatives, to achieve color photos,
is not that different from using a computer
as a drawing tool. This is like tying up two
generations of creative work. Adherence to
the human body as a means of expression for
its passions, feelings and mind is a recurring
motive in the ongoing dialog between camera
and photographed motion; the body is a
landscape, or the morphology of a still nature,
or an alluring sculptural mass. In recent
works, she has combined layers, shades,
abstract motion, and shifting perspectives,
in a mood of mental intoxication, between
essence and mind. These works reconfirm,
and vastly enrich, the common belief that
Mediterranean art is sometimes a synonym of
passion, motion and bold colors. Irresistible
yearning to discover the invisible only furthers
the artist’s creative urge. Drora’s works are
 aLternatiVe Dream, 2006 PHOTOgrAPH, PIgMENTS PrINT 17x15,5 IN. /44 x40 CM. featured in solo and group exhibitions at
HoVerinG, 2006 PHOTOgrAPH, PIgMENTS PrINT 14x13,5 IN. /36x35 CM.  museums and galleries worldwide.
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