Assaf Shoshan

Assaf Shoshan (born in 1973, Jerusalem, lives and works between Paris and Tel Aviv) is a photographer and video artist. Shoshan questions a world where boundaries appear and disappear endlessly. His portraits and landscapes reveal an enigmatic atmosphere, shrouded in mystery. Between reality and fiction, Shoshan's work has a poetic impact, it explores a fundamental human dimension: the quest for identity, the feeling of exile and belonging. Shoshan was a fellow resident at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici (2013-2014). His work was exhibited at the Villa Medici and at the Lambert Foundation as part of the exhibition "La disparition des Lucioles" in Avignon. It has been exhibited in the collection of the Centre Pompidou "The Pencil of culture" as part of Paris Photo 2016 as well as in several galleries and museums as the Macro - Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome), The Negev Museum of Art (Beer-Sheva), The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, The Musée d'Art Sacré (Evry), the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Galerie Polaris (Paris), Im Körnerpark Gallery (Berlin), Villa Emerige (Paris), Fondazione Volume (Rome), La Frontiera (Paris) and la Chapelle de l’Eglise Saint-Germain-des Près (Paris). His work is part of private and public collections like the Centre Pompidou (Paris), FNAC – Fond National d’Art Contemporain (France), le Musée français de la Photographie (Bièvres) and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem). Shoshan published "Motsa" (Edition The Pavé Dans La Mare, 2006) and "Territoires de l’attente" (Diaphane Editions, 2013).