URI LEVINSON

..."A pre-verbal language is constructed and nullifies loneliness through animating inanimate objects, but without the ability to truly connect. The pre-verbal process is confirmed by the signed, welded, locked bookcase. A testament to the anxiety of the phallic solution, the danger in art as a "phallus," without creating a real connection between artist and viewer. The various objects, the furniture, the bookcase, the door, and the 3D printer, all totems awakening to life"...

..."Levinson is making a complex process in his works. He returns to the primary places of childhood, to the search for the gaze of the mother watching the baby – the artist, and encourages him to emerge from autism into connection. However, from the regression to primal places, he does not become fixated on narcissistic engagement, but demands full relationships with the viewer as a condition for the existence of the artwork."

Itzhak Carmel, from exhibition text

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