As we live in a time of visual overload, a time where magazines, newspapers, tv and other media are compelled to show harder images, the value of an image is constantly being provoked. If one image is worth more than thousand words, what then is the textual value of one thousand images? This question is the starting point for the work 'Conflict 1 to 1000' from the Israeli artist Tal Adler, which is presented in The Bakery.
Conflict 1 to 1,000 is a project launched in 2001, in the midst of the war like situation, escalating alarmingly in Israel / Palestine. During the exhibition the visitors will be confronted by 1,000 small images, all photographed in Israel / Palestine, during the months July - October 2001. The images stand alone, without any text accompanying and explaining them. The visitors are invited to buy the images, take them off the wall and replace them with their own text. They will write their own interpretation, reaction or question, provoked by the images on the wall. During the five weeks of the show, image will slowly change into words.
The artist will be present most of the time during the exhibit to communicate directly with the public.
This project is part of a series, number 56 of "collectors' items", by artist Tal Adler. For more information see www.itemz.org.
