Artist Roee Idah Sends Figures From Vintage Photographs Into Vast Cosmic Landscapes Where the Past Meets Another World
Roee Idah makes digital collages that look like memories from a world that never existed. Figures drawn from vintage photographs stand beneath enormous planets, while familiar landscapes open onto skies that belong somewhere far beyond Earth. The clothes and photographic textures recall the past; the surroundings make time and distance impossible to place.
What gives these scenes their atmosphere is the contrast between small human moments and an immense universe. A solitary person occupies the foreground, but a celestial body commands the horizon. The figures bring intimacy to the compositions, turning cosmic spectacle into something quieter—a scene you can imagine stepping into, even when its geography makes no sense.
Idah brings these fragments together with enough precision that the impossible feels surprisingly natural. Rather than exposing the seams of the collage, he creates a continuous space where archival imagery and imagined worlds seem to belong together. The result sits somewhere between a remembered photograph and a dream of another planet.
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