Guided Imagery

Guided Imagery

Shai Azoulay

20 March 201417 May 2014
  • Determination, 2013, Oil on canvas,169*178cm

     

  • The lost of the king's dougther, 2013, Oil on canvas,168*189

  • Snails, 2013, Oil on canvas,189X168cm

  • Hilolla, 2013, Oil on canvas,170X178cm

  • Installation View

  • Installation View

  • Installation View

  • Installation View

  • Installation View

In “Nigun” (Tune), a piece from Shai Azulay's new exhibition, Guided Imagery, a man is seen walking while playing a flute. Behind him is a background of dark and light, opaque and translucent blue sound-waves. His feet are sunken in mud that impairs his stride, yet he does not give in and continues playing his tune; the blue sound-waves responding in their vibrations. At the man’s hip is a blue parrot; his body merging with the blue ground. The parrot is present and absent, real and imagined, seemingly a fiction of the player’s imagination. He is a loyal companion, symbolizing unconditional love; as such, the player is the artist himself – the one performing the miracle of creation on canvas, while the Nigun he composes symbolizes the creative process - a white space that becomes a meaningful and valid story.

Tali Ben Nun