YAEL EBAN Is & Isn’t

YAEL EBAN (Israeli, b. 1985)

Yael Eban is a visual artist working primarily with the medium of photography. Her work investigates photography’s role in visual culture and has been exhibited most recently at HilbertRaum (Berlin), FJORD (Philadelphia), and Houston Center for Photography. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artsy, Collector Daily, and FADER. Eban has attended residencies at MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center. She recently served as co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces, and is currently a curating member of the organization. She is based in the Hudson Valley.

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“The series “Is & Isn’t” features an ongoing collection of unmanipulated yet surreal photographs. Viewed as a whole, the snapshot-like images create a wandering journey through optical illusions, transporting the viewer to a foreign yet familiar place. Eban has experienced life oscillating back and forth between two disparate and complex cultural landscapes, Israel and America. The intimate 35mm photographs are a negotiation of place, featuring layered and paradoxical subject matter—inside vs. outside, native vs. transplant. Landing somewhere between the concrete and the intangible, the images insinuate buried histories and multiple levels of truth and fiction.”