Ohad Matalon | Action’s Echo, Tel Aviv

Ohad Matalon explores the tension between permanence and ephemerality, between solid matter and fleeting image. His practice centers on the photographic medium itself, which he does not consider as a documentary tool, but rather as a means for disassembling and reassembling objects and environments,usually urban ones. Assuming the position of an incredulous flâneur, Matalon sets out to open an interpretive space where viewers are invited to question: What are we seeing? What was really there? And what else can happen?
Matalon presents four works in the exhibition, which together form a language of fragmentation. Clouds that come down to earth through a mirrored reflection, dismantled cameras and apparatuses, a sofa that someone had left on the street, which looks like an abstract sculpture when viewed through the camera lens. The works walk the line between a sculptural action and a photographic action, as the objects in the urban space become photographed sculptures, and the photos are printed and stand up as sculptures.
In the deceptive urban tapestry of Tel Aviv-Yafo, a city that is constantly rewritten and erased, Matalon finds moments that attest to cracks in the existing order, and through these, opens spaces of uncertainty, pause, and change.