Plein air - Lior Gal
Lior Gal’s practice is rooted in the notion of traversal: he approaches the landscape both as a physical site and as a symbol, shifting the experience of travel into a domestic framework.
Borrowing its title from the 19th-century pictorial tradition of working « en plein air », the exhibition transposes this impulse into a contemporary photographic register. Plein Air is conceived as a multiplex network of trajectories retracing the visible and invisible gestures of movement through space. Attention shifts from the fixed image to a dynamic process, inviting us to rethink what it means to move, belong, and connect in a world defined by constant motion. In this sense, travelling becomes not only a physical act but also a way of thinking.
The exhibited works approach the arid landscape as a site of encounter, revealing it as a space of joy and clarity. Kites react instantaneously to the impulse of the wind: they translate turbulence into movement and reveal its unpredictable form and rhythm. The desert and the kite share a common vocabulary. Both are guided by invisible forces and shaped by variable, imperceptible, and often capricious conditions, offering a way of exploring the world grounded in responsiveness rather than control.
