Nadine Kohn-Fiszel
Artiste plasticienne
BEYOND LOST BODIES
Tel Aviv 2022
During COVID, I had no equipment available at home to work with.
I then used my own X-rays, household products, and everyday instruments.
I knew that the original material, the X-rays, would disappear, replaced by CDs.
Then I managed to obtain other X-rays and my dialogue with the trace
and the disappearance of the bodies was able to be restored.
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Exposure Beyond the lost bodies
Tel Aviv, July 2022
Some artists spend part of their time searching for creative stimuli…
Nadine Kohn-Fiszel is a French artist, residing in Paris, who moves between Tel Aviv and Paris in her life, creating in both cities through the same inner desire for exploration, in both languages… examining the world, through engagement with the body, its exteriority and its interiority.
In recent years, Nadine has created body prints: she applied paint and ink to parts of her body and printed them onto sheets of paper and canvas, a kind of unique and one-of-a-kind documentation. These prints arose from the direct contact between a creative body, documented as a specific and momentary creation, and the paper or canvas—an indirect dialogue between the artist and her being.
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Nadine also used random materials, such as wooden planks that had fallen from a roof and old cardboard boxes, and also indulged in the creation of "traditional" canvases with brushes and paint.
The coronavirus lockdowns have grounded Nadine and confined her to her home.
A home visit with the family health file led Nadine to take out, out of curiosity, the family members' X-rays from the file: square, black sheets of film containing negative images of body parts taken with X-rays as part of procedures.
The emulsion on the film sheets is susceptible to scratches caused by the blade of a knife, screwdriver, nail, or hook. These tools allow drawing in white on the black film. The drawing perfectly matches the precise medical image, creating a sense of freedom. The film sheet can also be drawn on with different colored markers…
They led Nadine to a unique and original creation, which gradually awakened her curiosity and transformed her into an obsessive collector of X-rays, the source of her creations. It was here that the reproduction capabilities of our CRUSE device were integrated, generating files far larger than the original, with a precise and extensive color palette. The image is then converted into a positive, creating a universe of detail, nuance, and formation, paving the way for an exploration of computer-generated imagery (CGI). Collages of elementary details from several negatives are assembled on a computer, creating new stories, completely disconnected from the original film, yet linked to it like a lineage.
As a creator and curator, I had a unique experience on this trip with Nadine. We shared ideas, listened to our emotions, and told stories while building the image.
Thank you for this special experience to Nadine, a special artist.
The exhibition is taking place at the Shuki Kook Studio in the Noga complex in Tel Aviv.
Article on "Beyond the Lost Bodies"
In Hebrew
June 2022
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