Dafna Talmor's Constructed Landscapes: Sliced Negatives Become Abstract Utopias
London-based artist Dafna Talmor, born in Tel Aviv, creates hybrid landscape photographs by physically cutting and reassembling analog negatives. Her series 'Constructed Landscapes' transforms original film strips into new compositions that blur abstraction, memory, and the real. Talmor describes the process as 'slicing and splicing' to produce staged landscapes that conflate the real and imaginary, turning personally and politically charged places into universal, utopian spaces. Her works are held in public collections including the National Trust, Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, and Hiscox.
Key facts
- Dafna Talmor is an artist and photographer born in Tel Aviv, now based in London.
- She combines analog photography, collage, and conceptual experimentation.
- The series 'Constructed Landscapes' involves cutting and assembling old photographic negatives.
- The resulting images are new landscape compositions balancing abstraction and memory.
- Talmor states the work blurs place, memory, and time, alluding to idealized and utopian spaces.
- Her photographs are in the collections of the National Trust, Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, and Hiscox.
Entities
Artists
- Dafna Talmor
Institutions
- National Trust
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Deutsche Bank
- Hiscox
Locations
- Tel Aviv
- London