The chaos in order, 2020

While quarantined in Los Angeles without access to her studio, Yekutieli found herself working from home. Beginning in April and ending in August, an installation titled ‘The Chaos in Order’ slowly spread along the walls and ceiling of her home. Based on a photograph of her studio, the work is composed of digital photographs, manual paper-cutting and cement sculptures. What began as a way to clock the days during quarantine grew into an immersive installation that reformed the room’s dimensions, like a portal into a pseudo landscape. While sheltering in place, the room underwent a complete transformation as the inside and outside began to merge. Photographs are juxtaposed along paper-cut images of upside down trees, collapsed ruins, troops, and abstract residue depict different scenes; like a tapestry that encompasses different points of tension while bearing witness to one historical event unfold. Various narratives are contained within a singular piece of paper, presenting a multi-layered reality; an artwork inside an artwork. The dichotomy between the digital process versus the laborious manual paper cutting technique strikes a tension between two modes of perception, a reflection on a world that became an image of its old self. False and real meet at the exact same point with neither being more true than the other as the authenticity of the source and it’s copy become indecipherable.