Elinor Carucci

Tavi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Acquired from the above

New York, Sasha Wolf Gallery, Born, 2011 (another example exhibited)
London, The Photographer’s Gallery / London, The Foundling Museum / Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Photography / Belfast, Belfast Exposed, Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, 2013-2014 (another example exhibited)
Guernsey Photography Festival, Mother, 2014, (another example exhibited)
Rishon, Israel, International photo festival, Artist Curator - Michal Chelbin, 2014 (another example exhibited)

Elinor Carucci, Mother, New York, 2013, p. 1, illustrated in color

This work is in excellent condition. It has not been viewed out of frame. In raking light, the paper is lightly wavy and two very light creases can be seen in the dark area towards the center of the top edge. Not visible head on in standard lighting.
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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE SHPILMAN INSTITUTE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY (Lots 38 - 48)

The SIP’s public research collection of photographs reflects the Institute’s profound interest in studying different realms of the photographic medium. The collection, numbering over 900 works, focuses on historical images, contemporary Israeli and international photography. Conceptually, the collection focuses on photography’s disengagement from traditional documentary approaches and towards the discovery of other modes of action in the artistic field. The Israeli collection features central works of Israel’s most prominent contemporary photographers, dating from the 1970s to recent years.

AN INTRODUCTION TO ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHY by Gideon Ofrat

Perhaps, the most significant momentum in contemporary Israeli art pertains to the field of photography. Outstanding Photography departments in art academies and in leading museums, galleries dedicated to photography, photography prizes, ‘The Shpilman Photography Institute’ and many more have instigated in Israel what has long been apparent in the international art world: the golden age of photography. And thus, alongside valuable and bold documentary photography, mainly committed to the representation of grief and sorrow in the ‘Israeli condition’ given the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Micha Bar-Am, Pavel Wolberg, Miki Kratsman, Alex Levac, Gaston Itskovich and more), there was also the artistic photography which has begun to flourish, winning recognition and appreciation among the world’s most renowned museums and galleries. Simultaneous with the unprecedented pluralism taking on the post-modern artistic scene in Israel and worldwide, the practice of artistic photography has also reaffirmed a multitude of syntaxes of various artists. Indeed, even if one does not expect to encounter an “Israeli photographic substance“, most of the photographs on view here – the works of ten of Israel’s most important contemporary photographers –ratify a visual tension between trauma and fiction, with sediments of unease concealed in the depth of the artistic effort to convert the realistic into the simulated.

Elinor Carucci’s photograph, Bath, deviates from the prior works from the Shpilman Institute of Photography. Carucci was born in Jerusalem in 1971 and is based in NY since 1995. Her work is characterized by intimate photographs of herself and her family members. Harmonious and serene situations appear in many of her works, already in her 2002 series, Closer, and in particular in her project Mother which was published as a photo album and was chosen in 2013 by the New York Times as one of the ten most remarkable photography books. Carucci’s camera follows her own pregnancy, and the birth and growth of her children, without denying the “fears, worries, despair, love and laughter that make up our lives”. Rather than focusing on past memories and bearing trauma, Carucci concentrates on the present, declining the fictitious and the fabricated, and endorsing life.