Elkalai’s works include installation, sculpture, photography, video and aquatint prints, he explore the temporal and spatial relations between durations, dimensions, negative and positive or horizontal and vertical trajectories. The intangible – shadows, volume, air, movement, distance – often take form in Elkalai works, by combining classic techniques or materials with contemporary technologies or in locating blind spots between different media.

Some of Elkalai’s works involve a mystical, ceremonial, or morbid air, while constructing internal rituals or private mythologies. At times, autobiographical references are interwoven, but are generalized to relate to a collective experience of sharing our world and life span. Such works can be considered conceptual self-portraits that step away from the specificity of the physical and move towards the metaphysical.

Elkalai’s background in photography allows him to think of photography as a kind of starting point for the later three-dimensional translation and manifestation of images. Elkalai’s practice extends the photography’s durational espect and the its volumetric potential, while focusing on the causal and indexical relation between the sign and its marking. The time and space necessary for the sign’s formation are treated as creative restrictions. More generally, Elkalai explore representation’s inherent reflexiveness, its loop-like quality, and the phenomenological manner in which these affect the individual body, its perception and emotional experience of the world. Recently, he have been dealing with the way seriality and sequences are involved in sign making.