For his digital artwork, Leon David employs the technology of 3D animations. His series “Hollow Beings” consisting of the two videos “Wedding Dress” and “Centilus Maximus” introduces two sub-aquatic creatures. The protagonist in “Wedding Dress” resembles the form of a jellyfish. Although the space around the floating object is totally empty, the viewer’s sense immediately recognizes the agravic object as an underwater creature swimming in its natural environment. The opening-up gesture of the moving object seems to imitate the breathing of a living creature. As the title already tells, the form reminds one of a ladies’ wedding dress. The close-up even shows bouquets of flowers, which seem to be the outcome of a laborious sewing operation.

Not as obvious is the gender of the subject in “Centilus Maximus” until the sea cucumber-like creature starts to spray jets of semen into the empty space. Out of control, the little dots spread all over the projection screen like a computer shooting game played without a joystick.

The sub-aquatic creatures are constructs of digital visualization, they are products of a drawing machine from the era of computer and high technology and they have become subjects of another world, which is intrinsically tied to the real world.

place & year of birth
Israel, 1977

featured galleries
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solo exhibitions
none to date

group exhibitions
2007
'Boys craft', Haifa Museum of Art, Israel


bibliography
'Boys craft' exhibition catalog
Text by: Tami Catz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel 2007