Eden Bannet | City Diary, Untitled

The street, road, sidewalk, and alley serve as Eden Bannet’s arenas of inspiration. Her works originate from daily strolls in the urban space and the observation of the material connections that the city invokes. In this exhibition, she presents two bodies of work: photographs from her ongoing series “City Diary” and a sculptural installation displayed in the Cityblend space.
“City Diary” is an ongoing photography project, in which Bannet captures sculptural moments in everyday life. This is not sculpture in the classical sense, but rather sculpture created as if by itself from items that were abandoned on the side of the road and connected with other elements, creating inadvertent compositions of color, material, and movement. The photographs themselves – all empty of human figures – reframe the urban space, inviting the viewer to pause, look, and discover what is always there, but often overlooked.
Bannet’s sculptural installation was created especially for the display case located in the “Cityblend” space. The work is made up of found objects and materials she collected, especially ones that have fallen out of use from workshops in south Tel Aviv’s industrial areas. She disassembles this raw material, arranging it into new compositions. “There is no one logical way in which things are formed,” she says. “There are several arenas, and they communicate with one another and shape each other in their own relationality. You could call these beginnings, which I bring with me from the studio, fundamental premises, which serve as the foundation from which entities begin to take shape.”
Between photography and sculpture and between documentation and collecting, Bannet unfolds a poetic reading of urban materiality and the sculptural manifestations formed randomly on the street, without planning. Out of the neglected and discarded, a possibility of new, fragile, and surprising connections emerges – and with it, a possible different perspective on the city and our relationship with it.