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Outside is a series of photographs with multiple meanings of a house in the Negev desert. Photographed by Israeli artist Michal Rover in 1990, the house in the picture is both a hazy, indistinct object and a simple Bedouin shelter. We know it only from its shape, which signifies “house,” like a child’s shaky drawing of four walls and a roof. In this picture, it is a specific purple form, placed off center in a square field of light and surrounded by a hazy, bright mist that barely defines the hillside on which it sits and the horizon beyond. It is like an object from a dream, devoid of detail, or a mirage of shimmering air over heated ground. The image itself creates the illusion of “home” or “shelter,” a shaded respite from a long journey. “I am trying to shift the thing away from its identity, away from its locality, to watch it in many ways, to look for some kind of essence,” Rovner once said of these photographs. . . .
:: Philip Brookman, Director of Curatorial Affairs Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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