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Prostheses: Tomer SapirThe constructivist movement looked upon industry and design as instruments for social change and believed in their socio-cultural capacity to mobilize and influence.
Two basic characteristics of the constructivist style are apparent in Tomer Sapir's work: one is the use of geometric language and exposed geometrical structures, characterized by the aesthetics of the machine and industry; the other is the formation of sculptural objects through an assemblage of materials.
However, the context that characterized the beginning of the 20th century is no longer applicable, and what started in the constructivist movement as high expectations of a detaching from the past is no longer relevant when such detachment is today inherently associated with loneliness, alienation and frustration.
In Tomer's work, paradoxically, the constructivist style both contains and renounces an enthusiasm for the idea of progress: the aesthetics of the machine, which has become so embedded in western culture, is rendered in rusty, crumbling and rickety structures.
Nevertheless, the works portray an enthusiasm for the exposed geometrical structures and for that which is embodied in progress.
The displayed objects create a grey area in which cultural life is created and destroyed at one and the same time.
This involvement in grey areas has been present in much of Tomer's work.
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