For October 7, I am posting electronic copies of these images from Michal Rovner’s Pragim series. They were shown at Pace Gallery last year, from which I am freely cribbing.

Rovner works with prints, video, and installations. Her work combines landscape and technology. The prints in this series are colored in a palette of black, gray, and red. The LCD screens illuminate their subjects in a brightness as they flicker and bend. The poppies manifest a wild and animate beauty.

In Rovner’s complete body of work, the individual figure exists as part of the collective. Her work is unique in that respect. Looked at one way, the poppies imaged in this series are botanical. Looked at another way, they are individual and group portraits of a people, the people of “the place,” the people of the land, the people of Israel. The poppies are electronic, techno-natural, simulacral.