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Overview

"STEP-13" is a series of 15 framed pictures of the same size showed in a sequential order. The prints start with a white almost monochrome image and finish with almost an equivalent image. The artist provides here a sort of dive into the depths of the touchscreen of a tablet. Each level is an immersion proportional to one fourth of the previous image. The first image shows the state of a white screen such as approached by the macro lens of a camera. The second that follows is only a detail, a fourth part of the initial image that captures every pixel reconstituted by a triad of red, green and blue, and so on. Each image goes further into the imaginary depths of the screen until the distance between pixels in such electroluminescent components carried by electronic signals are not to be seen any longer.

To understand better what is given to see, let us dare establish a comparison with homeopathic remedies that basically underwent such a dilution that no molecule of the toxin is present in the solution. Homeopaths believe that the diluted preparations are likely to counteract the symptoms of the disease according to a principle dating back to Ancient Greece: "similia similibus curantur", that is to say, to care and to cure with what is similar.

Matan’s idea is to explore the image, as a specialist diver, to prove better that digital devices that are our main suppliers nowadays, constantly encode and encrypt the information while we believe that the reality is right at our fingertips.

Ami Barak

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