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Short Bio

Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber are artists who investigates photography’s role in visual culture.

Statement

Living Marble explores marble’s aspirational value and its ubiquity from high to low art through tropes of kitsch, trompe-l'œil, and the uncanny. This collaborative project investigates photography’s role in visual culture through a creative interpretation of the history of marble—a material that is often faked, simulated, replicated, or reproduced. In many cases, the forgery becomes the preferred version. To create the unique photograms, Eban and Gamber invented a new technique in the darkroom of marbling directly onto light sensitive paper. The paper is then exposed to light and developed with chemistry. The results of this process are unique photographic objects that look like natural marble.

Biography

Yael Eban and Matthew Gamber’s collaborative practice investigates photography’s role in visual culture. Both artists have worked in photography archives, which greatly informs their artistic endeavors. Their projects are built on a foundation of extensive research in a variety of subjects. Photography is the ultimate mechanism for the duo to investigate and express ideas that are visually intangible. Both artists are based in Austerlitz, NY. Gamber is a 2004 graduate of the SMFA at Tufts University MFA program and a 2012 Traveling Fellow.