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Roi Kuper
Ansar, 2003, C-print Roi Kuper’s series Ansar unfolds along the bare, rigid concrete wall. It features twelve photographs from the Ketziot Jail in the Negev, nicknamed “Ansar” after the first jail in Lebanon whose name was borrowed by the Palestinian prisoners and Israeli soldiers. The Ketziot (Ansar) jail was first opened in 1988, after the outbreak of the first Intifada (Palestinian Uprising), and was closed during the implementation
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Pilar Albarracín
Prohibido el Cante, 2000, video performance, 6:20 min In her works, Pilar Albarracín undermines the anthropological roots of her Spanish identity and culture. Via humor and cynicism she criticizes and subverts prevalent hackneyed myths. The video performance Prohibido el Cante (‘Singing Prohibited’) alludes to various aspects of Spanish history and Andalusian culture to which the artist belongs.
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Servet Koçyiğit
Out of Focus, 2005, video, 3:09 min Out of Focus was shot in a typical Georgian tavern, accompanied by popular singing in the background. Servet Koçyiğit chose to fix his lens at a single, narrow and permanent angle. Instead of a wide-angled
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Naama Tsabar
Twilight, 2006, installation Art, according to Naama Tsabar, begins the moment performance ends. The object is the silence, the memory, the rueful attempt to hold on at the instant of occurrence. Tsabar tries to freeze the in-between point or, as indicated
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Mircea Cantor
Deeparture, 2005, video, 2:43 min Mircea Cantor continues to explore hierarchical power structures; this time, however, in the video Deeparture, he applies his investigations to animals. A wolf and a deer were put into an empty gallery
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Maya Schindler
Sequence, 2004-2005, video installation, loop A giant red beacon takes over the museum wall; its thundering silence and spiral motion continue to reverberate, reflected on the remaining three walls around it. Entering the space, the viewer is confronted
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Yuri Leiderman
Doing schemes of my works I simply show the difference – when an African is working and when he is drumming, 2005, video, 2:43 min In this video piece the artist is seen with his skin painted black, wearing work clothes
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Juan Manuel Echavarría
Mouths of Ash, 2003, video, 18:50 min Juan Manuel Echavarría’s works reflect the harsh, complex reality in his homeland Colombia. Mouths of Ash features, via piercing, direct facial close-up, seven inhabitants of different
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Doron Solomons
My Collected Silences, 1996, video, 4 min In My Collected Silences, Doron Solomons combines excerpts featuring dozens of interviewees in the pause before the beginning of a television broadcast, from which he edits four intense minutes. The
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Happy New Year: Memorial Project Vietnam II, 2003, video, 15 min This is the second film in Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s trilogy addressing the memory of the
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