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Ilit Azoulay, TARENA , 2026

Ilit Azoulay

TARENA , 2026
inkjet print
wood frame
96 x 67 cm
37 12/16 x 26 6/16 in
Ed. 2/2 + 1AP
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'TARENA whispers: the observer and the observed share the same moment. She asks us to recognize the weight of our gaze.' Uranus appears here as a distant and...
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"TARENA whispers: the observer and the observed share the same moment.

She asks us to recognize the weight of our gaze."



Uranus appears here as a distant and mysterious planet photographed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. Its extreme axial tilt and complex atmospheric composition make it one of the least understood bodies in the solar system, a symbol of scientific observation reaching beyond human proximity.

Beside it appears a Korean stoneware bowl glazed in the buncheong style and decorated with abstract peony leaves. The vessel merges everyday utility with an abstract decorative language in which form and pattern carry meaning beyond function.

A photograph from the 1930s shows two women dribbling basketballs, a moment of coordinated motion in which the body becomes rhythm, gesture, and social choreography.

Nearby appears a plaster cast of the closed hand of the American sculptor Hiram Powers, a physical trace of the act of creation itself—the hand that transforms matter into form.

Finally, a Fang reliquary head from Central Africa appears, created to guard ancestral remains. Its geometric abstraction gives form to the relationship between memory, spirit, and continuity.

A distant planet, a daily vessel, bodies in motion, a creative hand, and an ancestral head coexist here. Between planetary orbit, human gesture, and abstract form unfolds a conversation about how form becomes a vessel for memory, action, and meaning.

A small webcam, facing the viewer, joins these images. Unlike the historical and cosmic images, it operates in real time, watching, recording, and situating the viewer within the system of the gaze.

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SPARK, Wien, 21
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