As every year at this time, we receive an unusual portfolio from Eran Gilat.
Here it is, always very surprising, and its text:
I am a Neuroscientist and an avid Fine Art Photographer. My research focus on the study of the mechanisms underlying epilepsy, and the development of innovative cure for this illness. In recent years I found himself directing vast attention to still life photography in addition to conceptual portraiture, highly inspired by my long lasting confrontation with biological tissues and para-clinical constellations for my study of Neuroscience. I deal with the aesthetics of the scene, improvising various contexts, the tools and paraphernalia shown are not just the typical ones used in the clinical operating place. “Evidently, It takes a while for a young clinician or a researcher to accommodate the laboratory or hospital scenes to enable good performance” I used to state. This is done by extensive training; some cannot adjust to the visuals. I feel, my photographic activity carries me to these regions too. My “Life Science” project is forcing the biological tissue into a relatively pleasant, sometimes artificial scenarios contemplating disquieting issues of materialism and mortality, while corresponding the complicated and intriguing category of “Animal reminder” in the visual arts. “Brain Research Glory” presented here, is a branch of my “Life Science” fine art photography project. I am evident for years to the field of brain research, here I was evident to both great achievements in the understandings of certain mechanisms underlying brain functions and the frustration accompanying scientists realizing the unsettling complexity of higher brain functions. My “Life Science” photography project study also attempts to contemplate, with the aid of certain surreal approaches the “personal glory” and satisfaction of eminent scholars of their “glorious profession” on one hand with the modesty enforced by the recognition of the current limitations and uncertainty of decoding critical central mental functions.
Eran Gilat
P.S. All specimen are derived from museum collection or meat markets. No sacrifice is involved !
