Black Dust
2016-2017
There is a trait shared in many of Daniel Tchetchik’s works that can be summed up under the narrative of melancholy and which is expressed through the black tones and the nebulous and blurred character of his images as well as in the flickering lights migrating on the photograph’s surface.
Taking for granted that most of the works were created in Israel, the question arises as to the discrepancies between a land whose light breaks boundaries between objects, being so radiant and dazzling that they lose their contours, and the darkness in which the objects in Tchetchik’s works are immersed. An inner landscape, black and threatening, forces its realities against the facts offered by the eye. Reality is turned inside out and in an act of an epiphany, discovers its true state.
– Doreet LeVitte Harten
