OMER SHACH
works
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UX-UKiss
Shacharit
Portal Tiles
Rooftops and Snails
Canopy Dreaming
Smooth Pursuit
Others
The installation intervenes in time and space in two main ways. The first is an architectural material intervention, in which we wrapped the gallery's vitrine in foam, and rebuilt the structure as a soft facade.
The second is a soundtrack of Shachar Hasson, a well known Israeli comedian recites a lucid guidance
meditation to the passersby of the street.
The work seeks to spread compassion to the people walking in the noisy and dense reality of the inner city
of Tel Aviv. The padded vitrine is a soft monolith, inviting to the touch as it blocks and hides. The cloned voice
that recites and sings is calming, at times comical, but also creates a suffocating intimacy. Hasson in known
to be sord of a sad clown that “gives it all” on stage, and the experience of listening to his glitching familiar
voice is between comforting and threatening.
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Wood, foam, arduino, sensors, speakers, AI voice model, led lights, metal, staples, glue, glass, MDF, store facade, 15 songs and texts