The Gatekeeper

Tom Porat Curator: Carmit Blumensohn  Concept collaboration: Bar Faber

3D modeling and animation Priel Hackim Wander, watch, listen, take photos, dismantle, separate, cut off, connect, put together, add, assemble. Tom Porat begins his creative process by taking photos and sound samples of his artwork’s intended exhibition venue. He visits the space and feels it; he revives fleeting glances and discovers new perspectives, exploring its architectural elements via photography. The materials he collects are the building blocks of his creative process, through which he diligently forms a collage using digital technology. The result is a multi-layered work of art that weaves together the physical space and the associations it carries, to yield an effect that defies the banal and the obvious. It is a mood; an associative mental process. For More