the moon is a mirror

Throughout his work, Eliav exposes the complex relationship between what we see and what we know. His careful painting installations present themselves as a mirage-like territory where visual perception is constantly questioned, or in his words: “In a way, looking at painting is a chance for looking at looking.”

  In his new exhibition, “The Moon is a Mirror”, Oren Eliav turns to “Generative Adversarial Networks” (or GAN’s), a method of image synthesis in artificial intelligence, which enables the making of new images with a realistic character, although devoid of any human knowledge of the world. Painting after these images, Eliav creates a strange and poetic encounter between machine vision and human imagination.

 "The Moon is A Mirror”, is also the name of a poem written by the artist. It includes the painting’s titles, thus suggesting a path for orientation in space or a chain of events. The paintings are arranged on the four gallery walls as verses of the poem, as nodes in a neural network or as an equation composed of birds and branches, of stars, mirrors and the moon.

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