Oded ezer bio

I chose the letter E intuitively, as it is the first letter of my surname, Ezer (Means 'helping' in Hebrew) → A surname is a sociopolitical means of cataloguing the individual within and towards the social and cultural space → The fact that the E is also the beginning of the word East, which in itself is a means of geopolitical cataloguing, also fascinated me → In this way what began as a personal utterance quickly became a reflection of a ‘place’, a loosely-defined, amorphous, almost borderless geographical region → A place that arouses in me contradictory, paradoxical feelings of strangeness and intimacy → My middle E in the Middle East: My Middle E-ast → 

The E is not (just) a letter; it is an entity, a mood, it is a sponge that has absorbed the spirit of the times → It is the soul of the Middle East, ‘photographed’ at a particular moment → It is my Middle East, that