Nothing Beyond the Horizon
As an alchemist, artist France Lebée-Nadav creates metamorphoses in states of matter and space through various photographic practices.
In her own enclosed world, she unfolds a boundless expanse on the Formica table in her studio, whose horizon line is blocked by the wall behind it.
Within this confined territory, she conjures up magical, desolate, fragmented, and fragile landscapes.
Using plants, sand, and other materials she encounters along the way, she disrupts the perception of scale, making present a non-place that is simultaneously miniature and vast, familiar and alien, devoid of any human life.
In two additional works, she dissolves a windowpane—facing nowhere—using light at different times of the day, transforming it from an artificial artifact into an organic material.
Through these opposing acts of creation from nothing and the deconstruction of the existing, she brings forth a transient, poetic world—a world at the end of time, remnants of what the wind has left behind and what the sun has melted, a world where nothing exists beyond the
horizon.
Noa Ben-Nun Melamed, curator
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Watch video of the exhibition here
