T o m e r S a p i r - ת ו מ ר ס פ י ר : Insectess

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You cannot view this site, and many other like it, without a flash player.<br /> If you wish to install one <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" class="l1" rel="nofollow">click here</a><br /> </div> </div> <br /> <br /> <div id="shadow_page"> <h1>Tomer Sapir's Insectess, 2005</h1> <br /> <br /> "Insectess" (a female insect) re-examines, among others, the limits of the object as a functional product. Entrails of a bulb, concrete, sponge, an organic egg shell and other materials create a nonfunctioning urban insect. The encounter between organic materials and materials that are conceived as cold and urban gives birth to creatures that on the one hand are dead and fossilized and on the other hand are alive and full of tenderness. <br /><br /> The failure of the bond with the construction to restore the leaves' "natural" function generates a feeling that we are dealing with the connection between an artificial prosthesis and a living body. However, this is an illusion, since it is hard to decide what is the body and what is the prosthesis, what is living and what is artificial. In fact, the blurring of this boundary creates / reveals the illusion of a binary separation and discloses that the relation between both parts is dialectic. <br /><br />Their creation is very foggy and a large part of the procedure is random. That's why every insectess, just like creatures in nature, is one of a kind. <br /><br />"Insectess" was first presented on November 2004 at the "Beyond the Functional" group exhibition at the Periscope Gallery in Tel-Aviv. A second generation of "Insectesses" was presented on April 2005 in a group exhibition at the "SaloneSatellite" in "Salone del Mobile", Milan. On September 2005 the project was presented at the "Maison & Objet" fair in Paris in the "Animality", a space designed by Elisabeth Leriche. <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_1.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_2.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_3.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_4.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_5.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_6.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_7.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_8.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><img src="../images/project_2_9.jpg" alt="" /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Insectess: Section, 2006</h2> <br /><br />This project came in continuation and as an evolution of Insectess. In it, I created a model that simulates (in enlargement) an archeological section of a domestic and claustrophobic “ant farm”, which includes five different “species” of insectess. 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