Don’t tell me you didn’t know (2015) Photography by Idan Wizen

ABOUT "Don't tell me you didn't know" ------------------------------------- --- "Don't tell me you didn't know" is part of The World We Left Them collection made in 2015. ABOUT THE SERIES "THE WORLD WE LEFT THEM" ------------ --------------------------------------- What will future generations say when they talk about the world we left them? Idan Wizen wants to represent an intergenerational dialogue between the audience of today and the representation of the children of the future. Far from a pessimistic vision of the future, it expresses the urgent need to sound the alarm for the sake of our planet and the children to come. Through this photographic series, he urges the viewer to understand that their actions and inactions have consequences in the future going far beyond present existence and that they have a responsibility to choose beyond their immediate interest. The underlying question of this work is the irreversibility of our choices and our actions: will one day be too late to reverse the course of things and can we eternally delay solving the problems of tomorrow? A WORD FROM THE ARTIST ----------------------------- I'm creating strong and striking images for one purpose: I want my images to provoke thought and discussion. I want the viewer to question himself, question his certainties, learn to see things differently. Pondering two levels: the individual and societal. At the individual level, I want my work to take the viewer on a journey to think about the constraints their minds self-impose, of acceptance of their body, or to help find the beauty in all shapes, sizes, and flaws. At the societal level, my reflections turn to the choices we will have to make tomorrow: our morals, our environment, our responsibility towards future generations, our relationship to science, to the transformation of homo sapiens into a new species… These images come from a wide inspiration, mainly from writings, such as those of Bernard Werber or Yuval Noah Harari, but also great photographers like David Lachapelle or Jill Greenberg. Not to mention, of course, my pop culture, ranging from Marvel to Tolkien through the Rock and Metal music of the 70s and 80s. Combining strong ideas with the relevant aesthetic of an image seems to me easier than writing a political or philosophical piece. Art allows us to send a more subtle message, a message that will be interpreted differently depending on the viewer. By using in my art, the subtlety and multi-interpretation of the message, I want to make the viewers' ideas into perspective their vision of things and thus, to understand mine. I want to caress the unconscious and thus becoming the seed that will germinate over time allowing an evolution of ideas. Most artists have very radical opinions on their topic. I tend to believe that most of our daily challenges and problems are complicated involving a complex and subtle solution. I'd like to think about the faces of the coin. Isn't it funny for a 2D artist? For now, it's in photography that I found the most comfortable way to express myself. But I'm starting to think about sculpture and video in order to express more easily the permanent, rage and hope, cohabitating inside me. My rage is coming from the contemplation of a world seeming to turn in the wrong direction! I always feel repulsed and angered at many things. I feel anger towards the state of the world. I feel beaten down at people's stupidity, violence and hypocrisy. I feel thunderstruck at the fear of progress and science. And I also truly believe that our world is better now than it has ever been. I'm amazed by some beautiful minds, by the creativity and intelligence of the human kind. So it's in the human kind that I put my hope and my expectations for tomorrow! TECHNICAL INFORMATION ---------------------------- Series: The world we left them Edition of 3 - Print unique on each size Type of print: Silver-based C-Print The print offered here: 120 x 120 cm mounted on Dibond. The print is coming with a Hahnemühle certificate of authenticity.

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