OMER SHACH
works
ManiacsLovers Moloch
UX-UKiss
Shacharit
Portal Tiles
Rooftops and Snails
Canopy Dreaming
Smooth Pursuit
Others
Rooftop and Snails (collaboration with Roni Kim)
“Within a radius around my house, there's no one, yet I'm not alone. Tiny creatures, smaller than myself, hide in
the nearby vegetation, carrying on their lives as usual. Glistening slime betrays their paths; they surely haven't
ventured far enough to dispel my fear of accidentally crushing one.
From the human perspective, the snails' journeys seem nonsensical. The roofs of the houses watch us, surely
pondering something similar: the creatures that built us flit about incessantly, for reasons beyond their ken.
This is a period of paranoid tension, a watchful silence heavy with expectation. The faces peering down from
the rooftops track my every move, their critique sharper than mere tiles. Does the snail share my anxiety, I wonder?”
A site specific installation made right after the movement restrictions due to covid were cancelled. The work is
divided into a space that simulates a neighbourhood and an entrance hall in a residential building. The working
process was based on sculpture from attentive observation of everyday things - roofs, snail slime and a residential
building. Through deviation from the proportions and materiality of the objects, a fantastical space is created that
arouses the feeling that the viewer is supervised.
Wood, varnish, pigment, nylon powder, plaster, glass, nail polish, metal, wallpaper, peepholes, spotlights, arduino