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...The plates themselves are crafted with such attention to detail that they appear to be machine-made rather than hand-crafted with a jigsaw, perhaps a reference to the idea that sciences might be mere manmade constructs rather than reflective of the laws of the universe.
At the same time, Ben-David's minimalist black and white palette and streamlined iconography lend a Zen Like, meditative serenity to "Evolution and Theory" a nod to the "comfort" that scientific discovery provides, such as the elixirs and antidotes that result from experimentation.
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The plates are as carefully positioned in relation to one another as words in a well-written essay or a sonnet.
Ben-David raises issues in this poetic installation that are especially relevant to today, a potentially - dangerous time when controversial scientific revolution, from Vialgra to cloning, rather than evolution itself, has become our focus instead.
Reena Jana from 'Zadok Ben-David - San Francisco Art Institute'
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"Zadok Ben-David lays out the prolongect sculpture-science project which has peoccupied him, in different versions, sice the early 1990s. Since Leonardo. Holhein, and through Vermeer to Duchamp science has cast a restles shadow on the sceptic subconscious of the curious artist, and especially the one who searches for ironic parallels between rational reality and emotional reality. between the tyranny of scientific arbitrariness and humanist scepticism."
Mier Agassi / Scenes from Apocalypse and Comedy, Evolution and Theory
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