Ilit Azoulay
78 x 49 cm
30 11/16 x 19 4/16 in
"TALIS opens the distance, and the heart finds a path within it.
She connects the near and the far until the world becomes intimate."
his work connects three images operating at very different scales of distance and time: a distant planet at the edge of the solar system, a divine figure from the ancient world, and a simple human moment captured in a photograph.
The surface of Pluto, revealed through images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, presents a distant world suddenly made visible. Enhanced color data reveal plains, mountains, and geological layers—an unfamiliar yet tangible landscape.
Beside it appears a marble female head from the third century CE, most likely representing a goddess from the late Roman world.
A small photograph from the 1930s shows a woman and a sled in a snowy landscape, a quiet and fleeting moment of human presence.
Between cosmic distance, mythological image, and intimate memory emerges a space in which questions of identity and presence move between worlds—from the most distant to the most intimate.
