Yuval Yairi

Born in Israel in 1961, Yairi currently lives and works in Jerusalem. He graduated from the visual communications department at WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education in 1988. Since 2004, Yairi has been working mainly with photography and video, exploring places that have historical, cultural, or political significance, and which also connect with his personal story and memories. As critic Rebecca Robertson has described his work, "Yairi documents physical space by collecting images—sometimes thousands of a single room—with a digital video camera. He knits them together digitally to make gorgeous, large-scale prints. In some images, rectilinear space seems to curve, echoing the arches in the architecture. In others, Yairi combines frames from different times of day to produce subtly surreal lighting." Yairi’s work has been exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2004); the San Diego Natural History Museum (2007); the Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China (2008); and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011).