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Asaf Gam Hacohen digitally manipulates photographs of vibrant, familiar scenes, flattening them to near abstraction. As you move closer into the image, architecture and figures become more apparent, giving life and energy to the compositions. Hacohen plays with the idea of memory, observation and the digital feed of our reality.
"The atomization of the photographic image and the subsequent extension and replication of single pixels reveals their genome, allowing for an examination of materiality and of the composition of light and color underlying the digital image. Despite the high-tech appearance of these images, they were created in a laborious, manual, low-tech process." — Asaf Gam Hacohen
Asaf Gam Hacohen, artist, curator and lecturer, lives and works at Tel Aviv, Israel. Awarded by The Israel Ministry of Culture Award, 2017, The Israel Lottery Culture Council support of digital catalogue, 2017 & The Lottery Culture Council support of solo exhibition 2012.
Gam Hacohen holds M.a degree at Cultural Studies from Tel Aviv University, B.F.A at Cinema Studies & Practical Engineering in Photography & Digital Media from Sapir College, Ux Design from the Technion College.
Since 2011 Asaf held six solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces in Israel, including Indie Gallery, Minshar Gallery, DaPhotolab Gallery and the Israeli Parliament. Gam Hacohen participated in numerus group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide – in Israel, UK, USA, Italy and Germany, among them the Ashdod Museum (2019), Museo D'arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova (2022), The second Tel Aviv Art and Design Biennale at The Eretz Israel Museum & Nachum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv (2023). His artworks have been purchased by private and public collections and are displayed in a few Israeli embassies in Dubai & Abu-Dabi.
