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                           A INQUIRING SPACE — TIME PROCESS NOTION OF HETEROTOPIC ENVIRONMENTS

As part of a residency program at Herzl 119 Lab, and after a month of developing a new direction, Matan Oren created a series of paintings that form a fragmented, time-lapsed sequence interrupted by light. Alongside the paintings, he presented an animation created from them. The installation, soaked in club sounds, invited the audience to experience, dance, observe, and simply exist within the created space-time-motion dimensions.

Matan created a timeless, performative experience with no clear beginning or end, where the viewer’s movement through the space activated the work. The viewer was exposed to fragmented imagery, unable to grasp it in a single glance, requiring movement around the pieces. The connection of these images reformed the moment, appearing in the space as light—an infinite, renewed projection of the present.

Inspired by scenes from Tel Aviv club parties, the installation reflects heterotopias—out-of-time spaces with different codes and values from daily life. The clubbers, immersed in the same light and rhythm, enter an artificial, almost alien atmosphere.

His work explored existential aspects of movement formation, memory creation, spatial perception, and humanity’s existence within these cosmic processes, raising questions about memory, its formation, and its connection to inner experience.

Photo: Flora Deborah

MATAN OREN

MATAN OREN

MATAN OREN

FLASH

(2020)

As part of a residency program at Herzl 119 Lab, and after a month of developing a new direction, Matan Oren created a series of paintings that form a fragmented, time-lapsed sequence interrupted by light. Alongside the paintings, he presented an animation created from them. The installation, soaked in club sounds, invited the audience to experience, dance, observe, and simply exist within the created space-time-motion dimensions.

Matan created a timeless, performative experience with no clear beginning or end, where the viewer’s movement through the space activated the work. The viewer was exposed to fragmented imagery, unable to grasp it in a single glance, requiring movement around the pieces. The connection of these images reformed the moment, appearing in the space as light—an infinite, renewed projection of the present.

Inspired by scenes from Tel Aviv club parties, the installation reflects heterotopias—out-of-time spaces with different codes and values from daily life. The clubbers, immersed in the same light and rhythm, enter an artificial, almost alien atmosphere.

His work explored existential aspects of movement formation, memory creation, spatial perception, and humanity’s existence within these cosmic processes, raising questions about memory, its formation, and its connection to inner experience.

Photo: Flora Deborah

MATAN OREN

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