Gaston Zvi Ickowicz

Gastón Zvi Ickowicz (Hebrew: גסטון צבי איצקוביץ; born 1974, Buenos Aires) is an Israeli visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv.

[1] Ickowicz mainly works in video and photography and centers on the interaction between people and landscape in a socio-political context.

Ickowicz captures sights and traces that remain in the aftermath of various events; a spent bonfire, a scorched field burnt in the course of a military bombing, an avalanche in the desert, rocks used to create a roadblock, or the ruins of an ancient settlement.

This strategy documents the traces of different processes and events that took place in the past, and is directed at exploring definitions of memory, history, and culture as they are revealed through the signs captured by the camera.

In this context, the concept of time is expanded: inevitably, the present, or "here-and-now" captured in these works, is viewed in relation to a chronological axis that constantly echoes the past.