Proof
of Presence
THREE SERIES
A single question,
three moments in time
Three series. Thirteen works. Sixteen years between the first photograph and its first public showing.
The body, in this work, is not the subject.
It is the occasion for a question.
Before Form
2010 . Published 2026
In 2010, without any declared intention, Viryam photographed parts of his children's bodies when they were three and six years old. He photographed noses. Taken to Photoshop with one objective: reach the point where the original form is no longer identifiable. Where the eye no longer sees a nose but something it cannot name.
Those images were stored for sixteen years. In 2026, with the consent of his now-adult children, Before Form is made public for the first time. The series is not named after what it shows, but after what existed before the showing — before the philosophy, before the intention, before the form itself.
"These images were made before the philosophy existed in language. They carry the accidental honesty of work made without the burden of intention."