La Solitude, (2016), shows segments shot in French Guiana, which used to be a French penal colony from the 19th through the middle of the 20th century. The video opens with the cell occupied by Alfred Dreyfus, when he has been sent there in 1894, and moves on to other sites in the territory. The documentary-like framework shows the locals and their villages, the capital, Cayenne, and Kourou – a suburb where most of the residents work at the rocket launch center of the European Space Agency. The narration accompanying the images, written by Danny Yahav-Brown, muses poetically and abstractly about the early days of cinema and cinematography, and tells a story about an unknown photographer, described only as "the photographer." The text mentions some of the ancestors of Western cinema: the Lumiere Brothers; Georges Méliès, the pioneer of the silent film, who made an important film about the Dreyfus Affair in 1899; Francis Doublier, one of the first cinematographers, who in 1898 faked a documentary about the affair; and Felix-Louis Regnault, a forerunner of the ethnographic documentary cinema. The images in the video do not correspond to the text exactly; the narrator tells a intangible, vague story, with no references that might help understand the context that binds image and sound. This is another separation of form from content (between the narration and the images, but also between them and the stories behind the images and the text. A good example is Dreyfus, one of the local heroes, who is not mentioned by name). Therefore, the images are dragged into the incomprehensible, free-floating story of the narration. Grainy, blurred images appear throughout the video, the camera wobbles, hovering up and down while occasionally focusing on objects around Kourou.

Text by Hagai Ulrich, taken fromTemporary Structures, review of Evron’s solo show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.Published in Tohu Magazinehttp://tohumagazine.com/article/temporary-structuresArtist’s Website: http:www.nirevron.com