honorable mention
Noga Shtainer germany
title
Pandora
The series “Pandora” is opening a hatch to my past and to my childhood. By looking to my past in a retrospective manner, I released many things that were locked in the box for years and repressed and buried under the ground deep enough that I would not have to deal with them.
By looking at one’s own life we repeatedly encounter the mysterious process of remembrance and suppression. With Noga Shtainer, homesickness includes the longing for a space we lived in the past, which we usually circumscribe with the term childhood. She is searching for the lost - the artist digs up the moments of this previous part of life that were covered up in one’s memory. It’s about the sentimental and oftentimes only weakly imprinted memories of childhood episodes which she brings back, and behind which very suddenly more dark memories, confusing phantasies and disturbing dream images pop up.
“Shtainer’s pictures are magic conjurations of a longing for a childhood while it is simultaneously intruded by dark phantasies. The strange thing about it is that as a viewer one does not wish to evade the darkness of the pictures. Everything seems possible in them, the beautiful as well as the terrible. We certainly do not flee from the scenes. There is a hallucinatory pull in them that draws us deeper and deeper into the spheres of the inexplicable. More and more we get entangled in the pictures only to move out of the magical landscapes the photographer spread out before us all dazed in the end. (Peter Lindhorst, 2017 )
1982: Born in Israel
2005-2009: B.Ed, Wizo Academy of Design & Education, Department of Photography, Israel
2013-2015: Postgraduate class with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons, Ostkreuzschule -School of Photography, Berlin.
In recent years I was published the series: "Wagenburg","Twins - Duo Morality", "Near Conscious" and "Home for special Children".
I was 15 years old when I began to photograph my first project “Near conscious” and it's took 12 years (until I become 27 years old).
My works has been shown in Israel and around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.
I am represented by the Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, und Podbielski Contemporary Gallery, Berlin.
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entry description
The series “Pandora” was made in Berlin over the last 3.5 years, where I have been living with my family since 2010. Those photographed are my family and most especially my two daughters.The series “Pandora” is opening a hatch to my past and to my childhood. By looking to my past in a retrospective manner, I released many things that were locked in the box for years and repressed and buried under the ground deep enough that I would not have to deal with them.
By looking at one’s own life we repeatedly encounter the mysterious process of remembrance and suppression. With Noga Shtainer, homesickness includes the longing for a space we lived in the past, which we usually circumscribe with the term childhood. She is searching for the lost - the artist digs up the moments of this previous part of life that were covered up in one’s memory. It’s about the sentimental and oftentimes only weakly imprinted memories of childhood episodes which she brings back, and behind which very suddenly more dark memories, confusing phantasies and disturbing dream images pop up.
“Shtainer’s pictures are magic conjurations of a longing for a childhood while it is simultaneously intruded by dark phantasies. The strange thing about it is that as a viewer one does not wish to evade the darkness of the pictures. Everything seems possible in them, the beautiful as well as the terrible. We certainly do not flee from the scenes. There is a hallucinatory pull in them that draws us deeper and deeper into the spheres of the inexplicable. More and more we get entangled in the pictures only to move out of the magical landscapes the photographer spread out before us all dazed in the end. (Peter Lindhorst, 2017 )
about the photographer
I am Israeli photographer and artist that lives and works in Berlin for the last 7 years.1982: Born in Israel
2005-2009: B.Ed, Wizo Academy of Design & Education, Department of Photography, Israel
2013-2015: Postgraduate class with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons, Ostkreuzschule -School of Photography, Berlin.
In recent years I was published the series: "Wagenburg","Twins - Duo Morality", "Near Conscious" and "Home for special Children".
I was 15 years old when I began to photograph my first project “Near conscious” and it's took 12 years (until I become 27 years old).
My works has been shown in Israel and around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery, London.
I am represented by the Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, und Podbielski Contemporary Gallery, Berlin.
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