Three States — DEKEL BOBROV

My work always begins with an image that already serves as a defned function in the world. I work with images that originate in visual systems designed to organize public spaces and reshape the ways they act within it, while simultaneously reshuffling the viewer's cards. By isolating these images from the systems to which they originally belong, by means of re-contextualization and abstraction, I seek to re-examine their form, function, and the structures of significance they embed.
I approach visual language as a system of relationships, rules, and conventions. Through acts of isolation, omission, repetition, and the alteration of signs, I explore how a minimal intervention can transform the way an entire system is read.
Rather than inventing a new visual language, my work reconsiders languages that are already embedded in everyday life. By making subtle interventions in familiar systems, I aim to reveal the assumptions, rules, and mechanisms of meaning that shape the ways we perceive, interpret, and navigate the world.

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Three States

Painted aluminum and bolts, 50×35 cm each

This work is based on disassembling the “No Entry” road sign into its basic components. The placement of the elements is detached from their functional context of signaling and warning, emphasizing formal relations of color, shape, and scale. Through minimal displacement of the familiar order, the configuration loses its symbolic authority and becomes an abstract object, devoid of instruction, yet charged with the memory of enforcement.

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