Gil Zablodovsky – Q&A - The Flux Review

Since 2011 Gil Zablodovsky has been working on multidisciplinary projects in which the main medium is video and moving image that is being created in several ways. Zablodovsky’s projects are site-specific or time and image-based mostly working with a sound medium that leads him through the journey of exploring reactions, senses, vibration, and more leading him to collect and combine them into one piece. Zablodovsky’s wish is to deal with sound, image, and movement as it combines together a new dimension of experience and creates a project reacting to real life.

Self-taught or art school?

I am a multidisciplinary artist from, Israel. I have a master’s degree in integrated design from HIT holon institute of technology. I have graduated with my bachelor degree in design and education

If you could own one work of art what would it be?

I can’t choose one. I have many art projects of my own that I am very proud of, I feel that each and every project is a consistent development of the path that I started almost 10 years ago.

But if I have to choose one project that has led my way into the art world is the project has been continuing to my graduation project at my first degree – the lab of visual sound that I made for over a year with many different sounds and music, I have tested the vibrations and feel together with the visual quantity.

Here is a link to watch the final video:

How would you describe your style?

My artworks are very material guided, since I started working on the projects I have worked with live visuals and real-live materials on my artworks. For me, the ocean is like fabric, or I can see it as a textile design working in this pattern.

Can you tell us about your artistic process?

As I mentioned above. I really love to work with different materials from nature to paper to plastic, and I’m learning its behavior and then building a new pattern, working with layers.

Is narrative important within your work?

Yes. For me, there is always a concept starting point together with the material that I’m choosing to work with. And it really depends what is the medium I’m working on – is it a video art, craft, or digital artwork.

Who are your favourite artists and why?

Yayoi Kusama – I really feel connected to her spirit for being consistent and not giving up when she had a hard time with the start of her career. And of course the artworks themselves and how she and the crew are translating her pattern of polka dots to various mediums.

Christian Boltanski – after experiencing his artworks in several places, I think that he had a very deep understanding of how people’s minds actually react to the issue of death and time framing it as a journey through his art.

What or who inspires your art?

Mostly I get inspired by people and talking about everyday life, I do believe that art and design come from various needs and can be an interpretation of where we want to go or place to be and mostly what we want to feel or reflect on others.

Where’s your studio and what’s it like?

My studio is at my home. And it is in constant change because I work on different kinds of projects all the time, so sometimes I’m working on a computer, sometimes on different materials and so on.