#fire guys

Yes, he is always helping nezha w his…

You can hear the clocks ticking when you walk into the room. You enter to face chessboards all set up, the clocks already counting and I could not help but feel the urgency that I had to take immediate action - here and now in this installation. The viewer alone against the many, all invisibly lined up in a room that is both a gym and a conference centre. 

Idan Hayosh's (1979, IL/RO/NL) works imply danger. Usually you quickly recognize the source but even after that the works remain daunting. This work is inspired by five photo's he collected – among the hundreds and hundreds he collects and organises into albums.

One of these albums became the book “Fire Guys” – firemen posing in groups before the burning houses they are about to extinguish. This book he will promote or demote on Sunday at 16:00 with the story of the artist's past in pyrotechnics that led to this book.

There is a serial quality or obsessive repetition that is present in the installations and in the online albums which is more instinctive than explicit but somehow very recognisable to all of us: there is an order present, which can manifest in intriguing but very strange ways.