Medium Tempus

Zimmer Gallery, Tel Aviv - 03.12.2015 - 02.01.2016

Medium Tempus is a term that describes "intermediate time," the same period of centuries between ancient and modern times. The philosopher Petrarch, who coined the term, created in his words a new "myth" that refers to that intermediate time as a dark, opaque time dominated by ignorance, superstition, and dark religion.

Gilboa, on the other hand, often deals with the concept of intermediate time or intermediate space, as an idea in itself - in the time of the expectation between the dream and the awakening, the place between the conscious and the unconscious, the fears and the reality, or as she puts it: Medium Tempus is a state of mind where most of us are captives.

The body of the works presented in the exhibition includes etchings, drawings and video works (based on animation) relating to liminal situations and places between ecstasy and death, between a wish and it’s fulfillment, between what is culture and what is wild.

Installation view, Medium Tempus, Zimmer Gallery, December 2015

Screened on rough concrete floor during the show, December 2016. A figure enters the frame, crossing it. Another one joins, and yet another and so on, all are walking towards the same direction, each at its own pace. They are all shots of me taken from the profile as I pace in a quirky manner, “wearing” a different “abstract head” each time, resembling a marionette. The resulting image is one of a production line, presenting a group of zombies marching aimlessly together then fading away, and so on.

“Portrait Bird”, 2015, a video loop, 00:33 min As I draw hybrids, fringe characters, I mock them but at the same time embrace them; ancient and irrelevant to our time as they may seem, for me they are a mirror to the human condition today – representing our inner conflicts, fears, desires and desperate need to be perceived in a certain way. They are us; this human-bird becomes my self-portrait. Yet unlike old myths, the bird is not animated; what we see is a person controlled by an aggressive, noisy, self-obsessed, attention demanding bird.