IRREGULAR ACT

Irregular Act

Ha Galil Gallery, Acre, Israel, 2017

For Gilam, art is the extreme point of the visual: a platform for ideas, thoughts, and exploration; which before all, requires observation. Art can open a new path towards the forgotten skill of observation, a skill which itself has become an irregular act, one that almost does not occur in a truly conscious manner in our lives. Transforming the painting into an installation intensifies the possibility of change in viewing habits. The large installations are an opportunity to refine and re-adjust our attention. Installation works, by their very nature, do not allow viewers to perceive them at once. This is a sort of white-noise filtering process: in order to see and feel the entire installation, we are required to wander through it. We must walk along the various objects, choosing our way through the space, deciding where to stop and what details to potentially skip. In our visual and physical journey through the gallery space, we find ourselves becoming a part – if only for a moment - of the artistic process: this is our opportunity to stop and irregularly observe ourselves.

Hagar Bril, curator
November 2017