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Thomas Rentmeister
The Dead Sea
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Written by Meir Loushy
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Order and Tidiness at the Dead Sea receive opposing meanings but also complete each other in this series of works.
Undermining the customary size of the object sheds light on the unstableness of the meaning of Order and Tidiness and allows a deeper inquiry of the salty surface.
The works represent a harsh and direct point of view on the ironic proximity between life and death, past and future.
Observing the future of the Dead Sea as a reservoir of an essential component for a regular balanced life is shrunk into a container that appears to be a common bathtub or a primal animal.
The possibility of including the sea with all its aspects in a gaze produces an illusion that the water/salt/Order and Tidiness balance can be controlled. This illusion goes on in the sooty ball and implies a symbiosis of contradictions that undermine the totality of the tidiness/order/balance/white and the black.
The exit holes are turned into peeking holes; the humor becomes defiance and what seems to be real turns into doubt.
This salt crystal whose surface preserves the trace of time and place allows itself to become an alleged used piece of candy on a wooden stick suggesting an assumption that
the changes that the landscape undergoes are arbitrary and perhaps not primeval.
The different components in this project function simultaneously as a whole: dealing with raw material, statistics of extreme concentration, unquestionable aesthetics and a combination of tidiness and mess all in one.
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