CUBA, Love Story!
An encounter with Cuba becomes a reflection on masculinity, military culture and homoerotic desire—and on the photographer’s memories of Israel.
THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF KOBI ISRAEL
AN OPEN-ENDED PRACTICE / 01PARALLAXESImage. Sound. Inquiry.
How does a life
become visible?
Photography, music and moving image exploring desire, memory and the selves we become.
Enter through a landscape, a voice, a question. Follow the connections between queer histories and intimate experience.
Enter the work ↗A first introduction →01 / LANDSCAPE AS MEMORY
THREE WAYS IN
01 / LOOKImage
Bodies, landscapes and the work of remembering.
Explore photography ↗02 / LISTENSound
Many identities. Distinct worlds of voice and rhythm.
Enter the listening room ↗03 / QUESTIONInquiry
The questions that move between the works.
Follow a line of thought ↗A CURATED BEGINNING
Points of entry.
The Indiscreet History of a Discreet Love
What happens to love when it cannot be named? Queer memory becomes a world of voice, rhythm, masks and image, approached through three distinct listening environments.
We Had Other Words
Twelve songs follow the changing cost of ordinary words between men. A cinema seat, a coat, a cassette and two coffee mugs become measures of intimacy and permission.
PARALLAX HOUSE / THE SONIC WORLDS
One practice.
More than
one voice.
Syntax of Paradox asks what love can say. Velvet Oracle listens to feeling, fracture and repair. SOMA turns toward the body. Each identity opens a different room.
Find your way into sound ↗A THREAD THROUGH THE ARCHIVE
What changes when
love can be named?
Move from the concealed histories of A Discreet Love to the fictional lives of We Had Other Words, then toward the philosophical questions of Who Taught Love Its Name?
Explore love & language →STILL / MOVING
Memory does not
move in a straight line.
In Parisian Postcards, a family narrative unfolds across still and moving images. In Investigating Things Past, recovered negatives reopen a journey into memory.
Explore moving image ↗