Meet the Artist – Ran Slavin

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Ran Slavin with his new artist book Shapeshifter.
The book is the first comprehensive publication documenting Slavin’s work. It includes immersive installations, films, photography, texts, soundscapes, and CGI multiverses that refer outside the boundaries of the book and to the digital world. With text contributions by Yiannis Toumazis, Aya Lurie, Tomasz Wendland, Gabi Scardi, Achim Szepanski, Massimo Causo, Merav Ktorza, Drorit Gur Arie, Avital Wexler, Svetlana Reingold, Hadassah Cohen, Adiya Porat, Naomi Aviv Milo, Alona Kimhi, Nili Goren, Avi Pitchon, Francesco Spaminato. 

Francesco Spaminato the book editor: “Active since the early 1990s, Slavin’s trans-media production encompasses films, immersive installations, photography, soundscapes, and CGI multiverses. A perfect example of what could be dubbed Israeli Futurism, Slavin’s tech-based output elicits a reflection on the conflictual dynamics at the basis of Israel and the ongoing metamorphosis of Jewish identity. The book offers an overview of the artist’s main projects to date through a visual flow that echoes the floating cinematic imagery and futuristic ethereal phantasies that make Slavin’s work so distinctive and mesmerizing. Drawing from cinema, videogames, and anime, Slavin’s art reminds us that the distinction between reality and dreaming, the material and immaterial, the visible and invisible has never been so blurred as in our post-pandemic times”.