Liza Fetissova Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by Ilan Weiss, “I'll call you back”.

Today we chase happiness.

We practice yoga, we run, we meditate, we read, we learn things, we travel. We fill up.

And often - if not always - staying connected, hanging on our (damn) phone.

Ilan Weiss suggests that we put it down and open our senses.

Look, listen, feel.

" It's a photo ? But noooo…it’s a painting! »

" … Ah good ? Are you saying it's a photo? »

And yes, Ilan Weiss is a magician.

The image in itself is not enough for him.

He transforms his photographs, using a secret formula, into objects or prints that have rich textures and hues, with a disconcerting pictorial effect.

It's much more than an effect.

Ilan Weiss treats his photographs like raw material: taken with a camera or a telephone, they are the starting point of a transformation... cropping, zooming, but above all a work of printing.

With his fingers, he kneads the inks that are still wet from the print, or spreads them delicately with a brush. The result is unpredictable each time, the inks mix according to their own will: unique pieces are born. Ilan calls them “ink photographs.”

The subjects of his photographs are multiple, and the genres blend and merge.

The world around Ilan is a united material, so by erasing the lines of the body and the contours of objects, he blends “everything into everything.”

A woman or a reflection in a kettle becomes a landscape, waves and mountains are transformed into sensual feminine curves. This Whole is a living, vibrant, changing, organic tissue.

Obviously, the works of Ilan Weiss take us back to the Impressionists and this desire to capture and translate light. But his prints also lead us towards pictorialist photography, where reality was distanced using different technical feats.

Ilan Weiss' subjects, modern realities (like tattoos, cell phone screens, Maes beer cans) and color create a vibrant, very close effect... A parallel world that exists right next to us.

“I’ll call you back”: an experience where the woman is at the center of an intimate exhibition.

The enigmatic woman, the tired woman, the naughty woman, the free woman, the seductive woman, the woman who looks at us, the woman who does not look at us, the woman who talks, the woman who lives.

The woman who takes all our attention.

No wonder we are unreachable.