© Dafna Tal 2025
Photographs from the series 'Space', 2018
Archival pigment print, 90x160 cm
SPACE
Photographs, 2018
The series Space forms part of a wider exploration in which a geometric sculptural object is introduced into natural terrain and photographed directly, using a documentary approach. By placing a constructed form within existing landscapes, the work examines how light, colour and shadow interact with its surface, and how perception shifts when the artificial meets the organic.
A square white cube, stark and precise, stands against fields and water. Light, reflection and line engage it differently from moment to moment, neither absorbed nor set apart — an ongoing exchange between form and landscape.
The cube recalls the art-world’s White Cube, yet here it faces outward. No longer a space that contains, it becomes a reversed room — held by wind, soil and sky, extending into the landscape rather than enclosing it.
Working outdoors is central to my practice. In a time shaped increasingly by digital tools and AI, this engagement becomes a way for me to observe and discover — to engage in direct experience and allow the conditions of nature to shape the final result. In such encounters, reflections, textures and colours shift from moment to moment with weather and time. Each frame meets nature as it is: varied, shifting, alive.





