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ArtEvol 2025 / Rona Bar & Ofek Avshalom
Lois and Her Mother Carey, before Shabbat Dinner , 2025 Fine art giclée print, hahnemühle photo rag paper 60 × 80 cm
Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom work collaboratively as Fotómetro, a London- based photographic partnership distinguished by intimate and poignant portraiture. The practice combines documentary clarity with dreamlike surrealism, employing vibrant palettes, precise staging and emotionally charged compositions. Subjects are often non-professional models, captured at the intersection of vulnerability and empowerment—portrayed not only as they are but also as they wish to be seen. Fotómetro engages photography as social commentary, addressing identity, gender expression, body diversity and the beauty of the unconventional. The work elevates everyday realities into extraordinary images, challenging conventional ideals of beauty and representation. Through this approach, Fotómetro creates a space where authenticity and imagination coexist, pushing visual boundaries and inviting viewers to reconsider what it means to exist and to be seen.
Artwork Introduction Lois and Her Mother Carey, before Shabbat Dinner depicts Lois wearing a latex mask and bodysuit marked with the Jewish star, posing beside the kitchen table where her mother, Carey, is drawing just before Shabbat dinner. The photograph is part of the series and photo book Lois & Carey , which explores the intimate, intergenerational relationship between mother and daughter, both Jewish artists living in London, UK. Set entirely within their home, the project offers a nuanced portrait of familial closeness, personal expression and unspoken tensions that shape lifelong bonds. In capturing this microcosm, Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom reflect broader truths about womanhood, queerness, ageing and the quiet revolutions that occur within the home. At its core, the work addresses the complex dance between mothers and daughters—how identity is inherited, resisted and reinvented. The tension between queerness and family legacy is treated not as conflict, but as coexistence—messy, honest and real. The series invites the viewer to feel rather than analyse, to absorb the texture of the relationship rather than define it.
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