In a shadow of a shadow I'm guided only by moonlight.
Where reality and fantasy expends like a lens - there I am.
Welcome to the dark side of brightness."
Elad Hen (Born 1987, Tel-Aviv) Is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist, creator and a photographer.
As a self-taught artist, his works focuses mainly on black and white photography, visual illusions and shadow games, which he skillfuly combine into an mesmerising world of visual metaphores about world and reality (or lack of it), and the subtle relations between human kind and nature, technology, and most importatly - among itself. His relationship with pain goes trough the camera lens and projected onto his models, who also uses the camera in their own behaf to achive the same - confronting pain of past trauma and embracing it while releasing it for good.
His use of live models makes a statment about objectification of the female figure in a non sexual way. Setting them in the wildest locations the Israeli nature can provide, combined with hardware and raw materials, borrowed from the the opposite world of constructing, building and recyceling. These uses makes an acute statement about human conflict between it's raw, animalistic nature and the restrictions of post modern society in the age of AI and big data where social convention collapse like a house of cards and reality becomes more subjective than ever.
His unique applications of themes and elements from eastern theologies such as Taoism and Budahism maintains a deep understanding of the very fundamentals of the human experience and temporality of existance – Love, pain, life and death - our bodies being decomposing and returning back to earth – Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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All images are taken thorugh a Canon 5D Mark III Full frame DSLR, and a 50, 35 & 105 mm lens. Unaltered and unedited - all images stands as they were captured.