Rafael Y Herman at MACRO
Rafael Y Herman’s The Night Illuminates The Night is showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (MACRO) Testaccio from January 25 to March 26.
What is real and what is imagined? By taking photographs in complete darkness, and developing film in the darkroom without electronic or computer-generated help, Israeli-born photographer Rafael Y Herman creates new realities inspired by some of his homeland’s historic landscapes.
This unique photographic technique sees him not only reinterpreting the forest of Galilee, the fields of the Juaean mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, but also exposing the West’s historic, second-hand depictions of the Holy Land. For Herman, it’s a process that removes old preconceptions around his native land and instead offers another reality – one that exists only in the images – and a new way of seeing, as he calls it, “the non-seen”.
Rafael Y Herman’s first solo exhibition in Rome, The Night Illuminates the Night consists of large-scale works that Herman created between 2010 and 2016, and is accompanied by an artist’s book featuring critical writing by Georgia Calò, Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Chiara Vecchiarelli and Arturo Schwarz. The exhibition shows at MACRO in Testaccio from January 25 to March 26.
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