EXHIBITION

A Moving Image

Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta, Edmonton, 10/04/2014 - 01/04/2015

2 Sir Winston Churchill Square

ABOUT

Yael Bartana
Guy Ben-Ner
Omer Fast
Sigalit Landau
Nira Pereg

Over the past few decades, artists around the world have embraced the full possibilities of time-based media, creating remarkably polished and technically meticulous works. Beauty, theatricality and the use of large, often vast environments have been combined to produce powerful visual images, unexpected encounters and emotionally charged experiences.

A Moving Image, features the work of five contemporary Israeli artists. The artists, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Omer Fast, Sigalit Landau and Nira Pereg, have been featured in prestigious art exhibitions around the world, but rarely has their work been presented in Canada.

Through narrative, documentary and poetic ways of storytelling, their work addresses political and social circumstances of the present day. Together, the works in this exhibition address themes related to the image of borders and boundaries—of things that separate and connect people—as well as the resonance of the past in contemporary events, and how experiences of conflict and attempts at resolution can be re-imagined and expressed by contemporary artists. Using humour, drama, enactment and parody, as well as incorporating inventive (or inspired) editing techniques and manipulated soundtracks, the artists provide critical new views of deeply complex, yet very real situations.

A Moving Image features nine video works that run between 4 minutes, 25 seconds and 30 minutes each, for a cumulative running time of 117 minutes.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Yael Bartana

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