Uri Shapira

"Time Specimens" project documents the growth process of aesthetically challenged environments, based on active metal vegetation and chemicals growth.
Inventing these alternative environments relies on a research, invisible to the viewer, in which the artist explores the most fundamental behavior of the inanimate matter over the timeline; guides it to act visually as if it was a growing plant, in order to create dynamic aesthetics.
Once activated, these aesthetics are passively observed while self formation process naturally occurs. Dialoguing with the brisk matter, changes day by day, destabilizes the artist's exclusive control over the creation, summoning unpredictable visual possibilities.
The video works are traditionally made by stop-motion technique; each presents a unique 'time-compression', taken from a selected growth period, a specific incident or a specimen from a diverse pallet of growth species the artist has mastered through experiments of trial and error.