Amit Berlowitz

Biografia

In my work, I attempt to reveal the magic embodied in the familiar and the beauty concealed in the everyday, in seemingly uneventful moments. From my perspective, the sphere of what appears "insignificant" allows for the exploration of numerous possibilities. Fragments of different memories, places and times are filled with potential for experiencing a certain freedom. The scenes I photograph tell a personal story involving a quest or some form of escape; most of them take place in a forest or open field, in non-urban landscapes. The figures are realistic, yet the images are imbued with a poetic dimension. The time of day is ambiguous; the scenes are captured in those intermediate moments between day and night. And while the figures themselves clearly know what they are doing, the viewer cannot always identify their location or the meaning of their actions. I unravel the narrative by blurring the boundaries between the real and the imagined. The images are always staged and scripted, and always appear as excerpts of a larger story, whose beginning and end remain outside the frame. This is a series of ex-territories defined by experiences of loneliness, estrangement and loss; at the same time, they have a fragile, dream-like, intimate quality to them. They appear to be located in the interval that elapses between two moments on a temporal continuum – a space that produces a sense of both strength and vulnerability. This interval exists in my work on both an emotional and a thematic level, and exercises its sovereignty over a realm that initially appears entirely prosaic. At the same time, it is given additional depth and meaning through the use of different mediums (stills photography, video and film), and through the relationship between each individual work and a larger continuum of images.