Eyal Pinkas

Eyal Pinkas addresses themes such as alienation and detachment, as well as abstract and textural photography. Pinkas’s latest body of work analyzes the advertising world and explores cheap objects and goods, which become elevated in the semantic space of culture through photographic representation. Inspired by Surrealism, Pinkas creates delicate and meticulous compositional installations of objects and still lifes. The artist often photographs banal items of the mundane such as packages of goods, processed foods, cookware, and household items. Similar to how an archeologist might docmuent a excavation site, Pinkas brings these items into the studio and through dramatic lighting techniques, imbues them with a pseudo-scientific quality. Pinkas's images are brought to the verge of abstraction at times, allowing the artist to create a photographic language all his own. 

Pinkas has had a solo exhibition at the OFF/ FOTO Festival in Germany. Pinkas has also exhibited work at the Kaleidoscope Gallery for Photography in Haifa, Israel and GRENZEN überschreiten in Kunstverein Ladenburg, Germany. In addition, Pinkas published Herr Haus kommt nach Haus, a children’s book of photography with Aïcha Funk-Pinkas.