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Ben-David's flattened figures, reduced to aluminium and color, are placed before us like archetypal authorities and for a moment it seems they are mere projections of the twighlight of consciousness, evoking the flickering of primeval understanding from the beginning of human civilisation.
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It is not for nothing that they are inscribed in the memory as something "known" from long, long ago, which can disintegrate before us at any moment and turn out to be an illusion. |
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This disintegration is also a result of sculptural-anti-sculptural thinking, which translates the two-dimensional metal drawings, through our optical perception mechanisms, into the creation of airy and non-volumetric bodies in elusive fields of vision.
The transparent, paradoxical silhouettes - objects whose light bodies are actually an empty space which are opened up by a manual saw-cut into the aluminium - create an illusion of an impossible lightness, of an irrational tension which is aroused by the material presence of absence.
Mier Agassi - Zadok Ben David: A Comedy that Lost it's Body Weight.
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