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Sandroni Rey is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Tel Aviv and Los Angeles based photographer Yanai Toister. This will be the US premiere of Yanai Toister’s work. An essay by Chris Balaschak will accompany the exhibition.
Throughout recent work, Toister investigates aspects of photography such as its division into genres, its social functions and its possible uses and misuses. His interests in photographic theory and in applications of architecture drive his conceptual exploration.
In his newest body of work Toister photographs contemporary housing developments in Israel. He employs color as an organizational structure to the body of work to underline the relationship between his architectural subjects and their barren surroundings. Toister focuses on this distinction to draw attention to development in contemporary aesthetics and the sociological consequences of architecture. “The logic these photographs suggest goes beyond color alone. Toister’s careful selection of these pre-configured housing tracts reveals less an incongruous relationship between home and landscape, than a predetermined coordination… Toister’s images communicate a sense of unease that lies dormant in the incongruous, continual spread of modern rationality across untenable geographies.” – Chris Balaschak
Yanai Toister received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA in 2006. He lives and works in both Tel Aviv and Los Angeles, CA.
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