ILIT AZOULAY

Finally Without End

Orit Bulgaru (Ed.)

Concerned with the scraps and remains of the everyday from architectural debris to spools of thread, Israeli artist, Ilit Azoulay’s meticulously composed photographs capture the ambiguity of objects detached from their original purpose. Created during a five-month residency at the KW Institute for Contempory Art, Berlin, the sumptuous monograph features work from her recent series Implicit Manifestations, in which architectural fragments she collected from ten cities were collaged into site-specific installations. Several essays discuss her practice. Sarit Shapira describes the artist’s 2008 series Unknown Aspects; Michal Ben-Naftali offers a psychoanalytic reading of Azoulay’s uncanny images; Shalom Shpilman explores the theme of viewer participation; and show curators Aya Lurie and Gabriele Horn meditate on two concurrent exhibitions of Azoulay’s photographs as events-in-progress—forever unfolding and forestalling conclusion.

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