Naomi Ben Or
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Exquisite Corpses, 2025.

The drawings, the photographs, and the drawings in them, were reflected in a tangle of “mirrors” of  themselves, appearing in different forms, or in the exact same appearance: becoming mutations, domestic events of disasters. Figures in the form of body parts have then appeared scattered and divided over and over again in different occurrences and appearances; emerging like a brutally abused Exquisite Corpse. Not only in name, I thought, but in the action itself, the Exquisite Corpse is dark and frightening—an attachment appearing as disassemblement. Disassembly in fact seemed to promise the application of logic: to contain the horrific and logical, and to offer through dissecting, an unnatural antithesis. Absent of space of their own, the drawings were forced to take upon themselves the space in which they were placed—in what I thought of as a literal reconstitution of the drawing to space. Ostensibly, liminality in the works could have had the power to enable the actual presence of the pictorial. With their sprawled appearance within the photographs, physical spaces were opened inside of the boxes: layered, circular and numerous. Now, various events appear in multiple simultaneous and parallel locations and sites; or a single event is split across different spaces, and accordingly dependent on myriad ones.
Exquisite Corpse 4.2


Drawing, inkjet-printed analog photograph and cardboard box. The photograph within the box depicts “Exquisite Corpse 4.1,” (three drawings in thinned oil paint and pencil and cardboard box. 31X44.5X31.5 cm, 2025).

22.5X32X23 cm, 2025.


Exquisite Corpse 1


Drawings, inkjet-printed analog
photograph
and cardboard box. In the photograph within the box is the drawing “A Moving Drawing” (five headed pen, 29.7X21 cm, 2024), staged with a metal tube on a door.

31X44.5X31.5 cm, 2025.
Exquisite Corpse 2.1


Drawing with five headed pen and cardboard box. 

5.5X32X23 cm, 2025.


Exquisite Corpse 2.2


Drawings, inkjet-printed analog
photograph
and cardboard box. In the photograph within the box is the drawing of “Exquisite Corpse 2.1,” a stainless steel cone and a stool.

32X23X31.5 cm, 2025.
Exquisite Corpse 3


Exquisite Corpse 3 Drawing, inkjet-printed analog photograph, cardboard box and stainless steel cone. In the photograph within the box is the “Exquisite Corpse 3” with an alternate “head.”

15X70X31.5 cm 2025.


Exquisite Corpse 4.1


three drawings in thinned oil paint and pencil, and cardboard box.

31X44.5X31.5 cm, 2025






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