Rami Maymon
Rami Maymon (born 1976, Tel Aviv; lives and works in Tel Aviv) holds a BFA and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He also studied at the Cooper Union of Art and Science in New York.
Maymon’s work has featured in solo exhibitions, including at Almacén Gallery, Jaffa, in collaboration with Fireflies Project; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv; and at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. He has also taken part in group exhibitions, including at the Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Schonfeld Gallery, Brussels; the 7th Biennale for Drawing, Artists House, Jerusalem; Artvera’s Gallery, Geneva; Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv; Museum Angewandte Kunst and KW Berlin; and at the 18th China International Arts Festival, the Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai.
Maymon deconstructs and reconstructs photography, using images of ‘objets d'art’, reproductions, and page-spreads from art-history books which, combined with his own photographs, he arranges in various compositions. Reading the history of art through reproductions - which are traditionally meant to document and preserve past heritage - exposes the dynamic political forces that have facilitated changes in how we see things. Maymon is fascinated by the moment when image touches matter, photography brushes against design, and order turns into meaning. Juxtaposing art and the banality of life, Maymon's works engage with the viewer's mechanism of desire. Photos courtesy of Rami Maymon studio.
