Ilit Azoulay: Room #8, Wall no. 4, 2011. Pigment print, 59 by 98 inches. Courtesy Andrea Meislin.
Some artists, like Urs Fischer or Doug Aitken, make their mark on their galleries by excavating giant holes in cement floors. Tel Aviv-based Ilit Azoulay, on the other hand, has simply bifurcated the modest gallery with a temporary wall, on which she hangs her impeccably staged large-scale photographs. Like an archeologist, Azoulay collects materials from the sites of demolished buildings, photographing each individual item in her studio; these photos are then combined into meticulously laid-out tableaux of objects that “go” together but weren’t necessarily found side by side.