Roni Aviv
Bio: Roni Aviv (b. 1992) works with photography, text and installation to give form to a psychological space of re- processing experiences.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Photography, language and mark making collapse and pose questions about attention and care within the everyday; the acts of looking, noticing, touching and effecting are being examined repeatedly. In my work I circle around difficulties in comprehension and potential doubt. Within the book under standing I utilize gaps of knowledge and acts of repetition as building blocks for a slowly revealed fragmented narrative.
I trace over erasure shavings with my pencil, I photograph watermarks; the traces of an accident on a once archival photography box. I read a letter, reread it, and rewrite it. I trace it over a light table. Under my shaky hand the words change too. In the blank gaps between the letters, all that is not said glare in its absence. The trace is both present and lacking. It points at an occured touch, its value is not conclusive. Its appearance and affect is subtle and unstable. When I photograph, I am taking a close and parallel position to my subject matter. The printed photographs become a dual surface that meditates on material memory, where the world is both shrunken and expanded in its unrecognizability.
“When the eye was removed from the prism — in which all looked beautiful — the faithless pencil had left only traces on the paper melancholy to behold.”
L to R: archival box wet (30" x 40", Inkjet print, 2021); decisions (6" x 8", Inkjet print, 2021); archival box (dark), (10" x 12", Inkjet print, 2021); archival box (white), (18" x 22" , Inkjet print, 2021); secrecy (4.5" x 5.5", Hand embossed napkin, 2021); under (8" x 10", Inkjet print, 2021); archival box (wet), (30" x 40", Inkjet print, 2021); movement studies (9" x 11", graphite on paper, 2020); wall notes (34" x 45", Inkjet print, 2021); under standing (8.5" x 6.5", Artist book, 2021)
