Time and place are not abstractions, in Yuval Yairi's work, but rather intrinsically linked formal modes. Throughout the Israeli artist's practice, he has persistently investigated how these two subjects operate as functions of one another: how a place lives in one's mind not as a singular "decisive moment," as Henri Cartier-Bresson might say, but as a conglomeration of successive views, gathered and arrayed over the course of a life. In CloudMapping, opening at Fabienne Levy Gallery on February 16th, Yairi continues these persistent investigations, broadening them into new material realms.

Press release courtesy Fabienne Levy, Lausanne/Geneva. Text: Justin Kamp.