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Virtual Reality - Hypothesis

In the present exhibition of photographs titled “Virtual Reality” Varda Carmeli employs reflections and mirrors in order to create a series of photographs that impart an aura of illusion and delusion. The photographs are the expression par excellence of a reflexive process, the significance of which lies also in the resultant “reflection”. Those who are photographed are reflected: the camera reflexes and the viewer observes.

The term virtual reality represents a system that creates the illusion of transposition to another place. The photograph creates and presents the pursuing, inquiring and prying scrutiny that infringes on the ego and redefines the subject-object relationship. It would appear that the photograph is the perfect time-encapsulating, world-discovering mimesis – a world that is rediscovered through the camera lens as delineated by the constrictive boundaries of the frame and the optical viewer of the camera. The images “trapped in the virtual reality” might be a distortion of the sensual perception or, possibly, its duplication. The viewer proceeds within a reality that is actual or virtual, existing or non-existing. The mind can regard both illusion and actuality as being, in effect, reality. What is actuality? Is it something that we see with our own eyes or is it rather seen in the mind’s eye?

In this exhibition Varda Carmeli uses the camera lens to document the image of objects and their reflected aspects. By this means she enables viewers to conduct a hypothetical discussion with regard to what they see and to the source of their visual perceptions.

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