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Body Gestures
Participating artists: William Cobbing (England), Pierre Coulibeuf (France), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Lea Golda Holterman (Israel), Nadav Kander (Israel/England), Tali Keren (Israel), David LaChapelle (USA), Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (Thailand), Hadas Reshef (Israel), Galia Uri (Israel), Shachaf Yaron (Israel) Body gestures are a highly expressive form of communication, which involves a wide range of both conspicuous and subtle movements. This non-verbal language
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Shay Frisch Peri
Shay Frisch Peri’s language is the outcome of a mindset that tends to pit art’s productive gesture against the modularity of industrial production. This gives rise to his paradigmatic essentiality and reduction of the creative process to the clearness of a gesture that can be controlled and repeated. Vital thrust and surgical precision support the creative strategy that gives form to the material or precociously dematerializes it as an installation. Frisch Peri confirms minimal
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Robert Filliou
And So On, End So Soon : Done 3 Times, 1977, video, colour, 32:00 min In his article “The Creative Act” (1957), Marcel Duchamp declared: “What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it
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Florence Lazar
La Prière, 2008, video, colour, 20:00 It is a Friday afternoon in Paris, at the intersection of rue Myrrha and rue Leon in the city’s 18th arrondissement . As the neighboring Al Fath and Khaled Ibn Walid mosques fill up to maximum capacity with
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Samuel Beckett
Quad I and II, 1981, video, black and white, colour, 15:00 min. Arena Quad I & II features four hooded figures whose age and sex remain unidentifiable, and who are seen walking across an enclosed square, or quad, in a seemingly obsessive, ritualistic
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Sonia Andrade
Rio de Janeiro (sans Titre 2), 1975, video, black and white, 9:00 min In this work, the artist filmed herself sitting on an open terrace by a table set for a traditional Brazilian meal consisting of beans (feijao), bread and a soda, while her
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Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota
Allan’n Allen’s Complaint, 1982, video, color, 30:00 min. In this work, Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota brought together two influential American figures of the Beat Generation – the painter and
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Nam June Paik
Global Groove, 1973, video, color, 28 min “This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch on every TV channel in the world and TV guides will be as thick as the Manhattan telephone book.” With these words, Nam
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