Azoulay is best known for pioneering a photography technique aimed at recomposing an image according to the data issued from a thorough research process.
Her work, Room #8 (2011) is a single post-produced ten-meter long panorama and is composed of thousands of digitally assembled macro photographs.
No, for Azoulay’s grid lends itself to communication with any and all of these grids, only so long as it remains utterly committed to the establishment of foreignness and distance between the images of these objects and whoever faces them.”[1] Perhaps more in affinity with “female” weave craft, Azoulay addresses and critiques the Darwinist notion of progress that undergirds the technicity of photography.
She often refers to “the one man in the first daguerreotype who was unknowingly photographed, not only because he did not know Daguerre was pointing his machine at him but simply because the technology was not part of his understanding of the world yet: Daguerre was invisible while gathering information.”[2] Obviously, today it is hard to find a person who is unaware of the camera’s eye and places that aren’t under its scrutiny.
“It is precisely who did not make it to the visual realm of immediacy dictated by the technical progress that interest me: ‘undeveloped silver halides’ dwelling in the darkness of the past, under layers of time, years of oblivion.
Each element in her highly constructed images, even the most banal looking piece of concrete or dust, is carefully considered and (dis)placed.
Her composite and multilayered images allow for a parallax view of several layers across time and space and are inscribed in the record of a duration.
2024 Stopover, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany[5] 2022 Queendom, Pavilion of Israel at the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy[6] 2018 Regarding Silences, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel[7] 2017 No Thing Dies, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel[8] 2017 Nebraska: Unknown Aspects, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel[9] 2015 A 7th option, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA[10] 2014 A Circumscribed Sphere, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel[11] 2014 Shifting Degrees of Certainty, Kunst Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany[12] 2013 Linguistic Turn, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2013 Room #8, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York 2011 The Keys, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA 2010 The Keys, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (MFA), Tel Aviv, Israel 2006 I Placed a Jar, Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv, Israel 2020 31: Women, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 2019 Skɪz(ə)m, PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic[13] 2019 Transferumbau: Liebling, Liebling Haus – White City Center, Tel Aviv, Israel[14] 2019 Transferumbau, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Germany[15] 2018 The Big Picture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA[16] 2018 KEDEM–KODEM–KADIMA, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel[17] 2018 No Place Like Home, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal[18] 2016 Photography Today: Distant Realities, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany[19] 2015-17 Disorder, Prix Pictet Cycle Exhibition, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA; MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy; LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland; The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium; The Municipal Gallery of Athens, Greece[20] 2015 The Biography of Things, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia[21] 2015 Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, MoMA, New York, USA[22] 2015 Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA[23] 2015 [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields, Fotofestival, Mannheim, Germany[24] 2014 Les Rencontres d’Arles Prix Découverte 2014, Arles, France[25] 2012 Tree For Two One, Contact Photography Festival (public installation), Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada[26] 2011 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2011 Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel[27] 2011 Numerator and Denominator, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel, 2011[28] 2008 Art Harvest, Art Farm Residency, Nebraska, USA 2017 Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry Prize (finalist) 2015 The Prix Pictet Global Award in Photography and Sustainability (finalist) 2013 Mifal HaPais Award for Arts and Culture 2011 Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry Prize 2011 The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2010 Gerald Levy Prize for a Young Photographer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem[29] 2008 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Daimler Art Collection Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA LACMA, Los Angeles, USA National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Azoulay has taught and lectured in various art schools and academies.