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Yonatan Ron
Artist Statement
My practice engages with two central bodies of work: paintings of museum spaces mediated through digital interfaces, and images of human figures drawn from my own photographic archive. Across both, I examine how acts of looking are fragmented, displaced, and reassembled through digital mediation, taking form in direct relation to the painting surface as an active material. In recent decades, as the encounter with art has shifted from the embodied space of the museum toward hybrid and screen-based experiences, I construct images from screenshots of virtual tours, recomposing discontinuous viewpoints into unstable spatial configurations that hover between coherence and collapse.
Alongside this, my engagement with the human figure develops from photographs I take myself, forming a parallel line of inquiry. These figures appear obscured, withdrawn, or partially erased, often dissolving into the canvas and hovering at the threshold of presence and disappearance. My process is grounded in an integral relationship to the painting surface, which remains partially exposed and functions as both origin and limit of the image. Moving across canonical European interiors and scenes drawn from everyday, my work navigates tensions of order and excess, display and consumption. Painting, in this context, becomes a site that holds the image open, allowing it to persist in a state of uncertainty and prolonged attention.



