Gerhard Richter

Skin, the human body, nature and all its sources are present in the pictures of Odem Leibovitz & Odelya Atlasovitch, who are also one in their artistic practice.
Their black and white images show us details of the essence of the everyday life in a very subtle, sensitive, fragile way. By focusing on fragments of the human body and/or trees, water,..., they not only show us the skin of the naked body but also the skin of an image in different layers. Details of the reality confront the viewer with certain ways of seeing, of feeling because every time we see art, our feelings are stirred, we are connected to that which is inexpressible, which transcends the everyday, the very existence of life.

The comparison between human and nature, more the merging of a human body with nature and the immersion in it are an important subject in their work and in this exhibition.
A head is neither a background nor a foreground but one with water. An eye emerges from the hollow of a tree like a piece of bark, is connected to it, forms a whole with it. The roots of a tree are like the body parts of a human being. At the same time razor-sharp and poetic, suggestive, erotic. Not objective, but from a subjective, consciously chosen perspective. Neither constructed nor forced, but very natural and spontaneous. A symbiosis and co-creation of body and soul. As a viewer we feel the pores, the veins, even the heartbeat of the pictures, the persons portrayed. Reality and longing, dreaming and love, standstill and movement, the abstract and the concrete enter into a covenant and a marriage with each other.

Inge Braeckman