Roof Tiles and Snails
Roni Kim & Omer Shach
27.05.21-25.06.21
Roof Tiles and Snails
In the exhibition Roof Tiles and Snails, artists Roni Kim and Omer Shach worked together to create a site-specific sculptural installation.
The artists’ working process was based on the observation of quotidian elements - such as rooves, residential buildings and snail slime – and the creation of a sculptural interpretation of these objects. By diverging from the original proportions and materiality of the objects observed, a fantastical space, which elicits feelings of caution and existential vigilance, was created in the gallery.
The gallery space has been divided into two areas: an area that simulates open space and an area that simulates a residential building lobby. Through the work installed, the artists ponder the differences between cause and effect + installation art and examine the concepts of perspective, sense of time, and choice.
The sculptural installation has the feel of a theater set without the actors, while at the same time planting hints about the earlier, or concealed, presence of additional creatures other than the viewers walking through it.
About the artists:
Roni Kim (b. 1995, Haifa) and Omer Shach (b. 1991, Jerusalem) are artists, graduates of the Shenkar College Department of Multidisciplinary Art. They live and create in Tel Aviv.
Exhibition Season: Present Continuous
Roof Tiles and Snails is the first exhibition of the 2021 exhibition season, dedicated to the theme: Present Continuous. This year’s exhibition season will focus on our sense of reality, which was upended in the beginning of 2020, when competing forces of slowdown and momentum began acting simultaneously, distorting our sense of space and time. Since we were rendered incapable of comprehending the present or planning the future, we were compelled to exercise resilience, to develop coping mechanisms and to break free from old habits and paradigms – to learn to move continuously in the present continuous tense.
The members of the Alfred Cooperative have invited artists to propose exhibitions which address the theme “Present Continuous”, either through artistic interpretation or through physical acts that echo into the future. The objective is to present artistic endeavours centered around uncertainty as a guiding principle - ideas that make use of rules and internal logic which impact on the progression and meaning of the exhibition; exhibitions that address issues of uncertainty with respect to the exhibition space or the timeframe of the exhibition and encourage live events held simultaneously in both the physical space of the gallery and the virtual space.