Stav Tsur

In a Place

In a place I don't belong to, a foreign domestic space, I select personal objects, rearrange them throughout the house and combine them into a new space within the photograph. The act of placing and assembling the objects unfolds intuitively and experimentally in a manner that values simplicity, subtlety and minimalism and defies common sense. It's a playful act that takes place behind the scene and behind the camera; an attempt to make the familiar unfamiliar and to unshackle the way we usually comprehend those objects, to instill life back into them. Thus mundane domestic objects gain a new meaning through photography while the domestic space slowly loses its roots in reality and grows into a space of imagination and fantasy. Through this process, I invent connections validated solely by photography and create surreal and imaginary situations. The photographic medium shifts from an act of documentary photography to a way of forging situations within the photographic space. Strangeness and chaos give place to a climate of silence, cleansing and inner peace.