TEXT BY MICHELE SALIMBENI, PHILOSOPHER AND FILMMAKER.
The art of Elijah Aaronson - and in particular her portraits of women - is suspended in time and, at the same time, challenges sthe contemporary and its inconsistent images. We are in fact surrounded - and invaded - every day by a myriad of superficial and inconsistent images. They have in common the particularity of having completely lost the properties of communicating, of telling something. On the contrary, the images and photographs of Elijah Aaronson are consistent. They communicate and tell a vision of the world and, at the same time, they tell us the essence of its author. These photographs are consistent because they reflect the identity of the author and, through a language, a style, a unique form, return the reality in all its complexity.
Through light, chiaroscuro, composition and gesture, Elijah's work invites us to discover and contemplate the absolute beauty (in the Tarkovsky's sense) and the ecstatic truth of these women portrayed in her photographs."
