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The Inner Voyager — Dov Fuchs Solo Exhibition at Global Art Gallery, Tel Aviv from 21.10.2025
The Inner Voyager — by Dov Fuchs
Solo Exhibition
Dr. Galia Duchin Arieli & Michali Adler
Venue: Global Art Gallery, 13 Merkaz Ba’alei Melakha St., Tel Aviv
Opening: October 25, 2025 at 12:00
The artist Dov Fuchs says: “In Haruki Murakami’s works, from Kafka on the Shore to 1Q84, the protagonist moves through liminal spaces—places or states that exist in a transition between two defined conditions. He traverses dark wells, dreamlike hotels, corridors that lead to a collective unconscious. In my works too, I walk between dimensions of time and identity, revealing a thin, mysterious gap between what is seen and what is felt. In both cases reality splits, and the viewer is drawn toward an aperture that suddenly opens within reality
and offers a glimpse into a more hidden layer of consciousness.”
Fuchs’s works engage philosophical questions concerning the search for meaning; questions of free will and
control; the nature of passing time, change, and
becoming; questions of identity and the multiplicity of the self; reality
versus illusion; mortality and the limits of existence; memory and personal
history; solitude and the essence of the human condition.
Fuchs
holds a BSc and MSc in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion. He worked
for over three decades at Rafael in the field of solid rocket propulsion, and
later in Competitive Intelligence. His artistic path began with a camera and
Adobe Photoshop, which allowed him full control over every pixel—color,
content, and scale.
In
2022, with the emergence of the first image-generation programs, Fuchs quickly
adopted Midjourney. Together with ChatGPT, these tools are now integrated into
the works on view. “Today I begin with a brainstorming session with the chat. I
throw it an idea and it returns several options; together, we expand my
concepts. But at the end of the day, the creation is mine, not the artificial
intelligence’s. I photograph myself—by myself—often more than once—and
integrate my figure (or figures) into the image, together with additional
elements I photograph. At times I download images from image repositories or
create elements with the help of AI. But the ‘stitching’ and integration of all
the elements into a single, organic work is mine alone.”
Fuchs’s
art visually embodies the 21st-century in a direct and probing way.
He poses questions of consequence for human life on earth: What is reality?
Does it exist objectively, or only in each person’s mind according to one’s
inner structure? Where is the boundary between perceived reality and inner,
imagined worlds? Who is really pulling the strings? The works reflect the
tension between freedom of choice and determinism, generating existential
motifs that introduce doubt, inquiry, and wonder about the purpose of
existence. His collaboration with AI deepens these questions and expands them
into many sub-questions: What is a human being? Is AI an extension of the self,
or an independent alternative to the humanity we know? Fuchs uses AI as
assistant, adviser, friend, confidant—an extension of the personal self on the
way to creating the artworks. “I want to show something that will force the
viewer to think—something that will challenge them intellectually and
spiritually. I want the viewer to ask questions; to seek meaning within the
reality I construct.”
Fuchs
places his own figure—his self—in all his pieces, giving universal themes a
concrete name and place. From this approach, several series were born, created
swiftly and in parallel:
Portraits of the Inner World.
An exploding head; a head immersed in stone; or as an
artist painting himself painting himself—and watching himself paint. Images of
inner conflict and moral fissure, coping with opposing forces within us. Often
solitary figures in stripped-down worlds, provoking questions of alienation,
belonging, and connection.
From the Time Traveler’s
Diary. A light-spirited series visiting intriguing
moments in human history—the Wright brothers’ first airplane, for example—and
playful art-historical paraphrases (e.g., Magritte).
Fading Horizons. Time running out, slipping away; paradoxes of time as anxiety, as
recurring cycle, as finitude, and as psychological illusion. A journey through
aging, memory, charged objects, and emotional reconstructions of the past.
Mirror World. A strange realm where reflections diverge from the original. An ongoing
investigation of the self through doubles, reversals, and split identity: who
am I, really? A continuous crossing—the moment when the old breaks and the new
emerges.
Fictional Realities. Literary inflections—from Orwell’s Room 101 to Carroll’s rabbit hole
and Márquez’s assent of Remedios the Beauty—reframing personal myth as cultural
memory.
“I
define myself as a photographer of things that do not exist. None of my images
exist in reality, because I photograph things that do not exist as a whole. My
works are like a patchwork quilt of fragments from different sources: my own
photographs, images from image banks, or AI-generated elements. The fragments
undergo transformation, distortion, and alteration before being combined in the
final composition.”
Recently,
Fuchs has turned to a new medium that introduces motion into the works
themselves. This yielded the piece Paradox Stairway at Sunset, in which figures
ascend and descend Penrose stairs to create a three-dimensional optical
illusion. The work hangs on the wall yet exists as a projected moving image—an
animated paradox.
In
these works, Fuchs contemplates the deepest human fears: the fear of aging and
change; the worry of being left behind; the terror of losing one’s way. The
result challenges viewers to move beyond prior assumptions and to look at
reality from a different angle.
Tel: 050-281-1710
Opening: October 25, 2025
Exhibition Dates: October 21–November 22, 2025
שעות הגלריה : שלישי –חמישי : 11:00-18:00
שישי-שבת: 10:30-14:30
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