Elyasaf Kowner
Elyasaf Kowner (Hebrew: אליסף קובנר) (born 1970) is an Israeli interdisciplinary artist who explores issues of abuse, loss, control and love for people.[7] In the end of 1995 he spent a few months in Japan interacting with street passers using pantomime, and later continued to study in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.Despite the fact that inevitably, the camera creates a barrier, what happened there was a mystical, energetic connection between Kowner and the people he met as they are hidden behind the crossbars of their cars.These moments – blending softness with violence, daily routine with elements of surprise and even ecstasy – are captured by a curious and sometimes empathetic eye that yields to random phenomena and events, not from a critical standpoint but from attentiveness to the contemporary rhythm of life that pulses in the city and on its fringes.[12] In 2004 Kowner participated in the World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam,[13] releasing Aftershock, a short film documenting a scene right after a suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv that occurred in Mike's Place in April 2003.