On the Series "Interior Constellations" by Malachi Sgan-Cohen

The photographs in the series "Interior Constellations" by Malachi Sgan-Cohen are based on multi-layered installations that are exquisitely composed and set up for the camera. These temporary installations incorporate diverse sources and materials like cardboard, polystyrene, industrial reels, everyday objects, artifacts and sculptures that have been assembled to participate in a drama they could not supply on their own. Sgan-Cohen transforms these sets of elements into complex compositional systems of inventive and dynamic geometry and symbols that impart a sense of animism and enigma. Situated in the liminal space of the studio’s interior - between the real and the imagined - these works allude to the creative process, while also complicating our perception of it. They oscillate between their two and their third dimensionality, suggest unusual interplays between objects and their shadows, ready-mades and sculptures, still life and abstraction, while evoking and encapsulating twentieth-century artistic endeavors to create hybrid modernist phantasms that transcend their temporality.

Works from "Interior Constellations" series are available at Feinberg Projects gallery.