RAMI TSALKA
History Devoured Geography series (‘The Pursuit of Land’, 2021)

The Pursuit of Land - duo show by David Gibbs and Rami Tsalka

We do not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the
glare, and the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit
alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom
pageants of an age that has passed away. Mark Twain, 1867.

This exhibition was born from a dialogue between the two artists throughout the last year.
Its subject matter revolves around liminal sites in the West Bank and along the Jordan Rift Valley.

The volatility of these sites, and their durable existence as ruins, constitute a fitting starting point for the attempt to rethink the post-catastrophic landscape. The works are intersections of political circumstance and aesthetic action, in search of new forms of expressing the spatial and experiential effects of calamity.

Author
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 Contemporary Local Print Festival, Musrara Social Gallery (Jerusalem, Israel).
2022 Trieste Photo Days Festival, Trieste Airport.
2021 Lucie Foundation’s CARTE BLANCHE, Street Photography Category Finalist.
2021 The Pursuit of Land, David Gibbs and Rami Tsalka, Nulobaz Collaborative Art Space (Tel Aviv, Israel).
2014 Substitutive Emigration (group show), REMONT Gallery (Belgrade, Serbia),
2013 Invitation to the Dance (solo exhibition), Contemporary by Golconda (Tel Aviv, Israel),.
2012 Festival Multi-Cité; itinerant photography exhibition within Festival, Paris France
Awards / Certificates
A Silver Honor at the reFocus Awards 2025
2023 Honorable Mention in the 2023 edition of BIFA
2023 Honorable Mention in the 2023 edition of the IPA
2022 Lucie Foundation CARTE BLANCHE, Street Photography Finalist
2022 - 2025 Certificates of Artistic Achievement, Luxembourg Art Prize
2022 Honorable Mention - Fine Art: Collage & Effects, Annual Photography
Awards.

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