The seven digital prints in the series Witches present female icons composed of multiple images culled from the Internet – a pastiche of elements associated with various religions, cultures, nationalities, and political movements: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim symbols, dress items from England, China, and the Mursi tribe, and accessories associated with capitalism, socialism, and Nazism.

Renaissance cabinets of wonders contained artifacts from various worlds that were displayed one alongside another. Some of these artifacts had been fabricated (usually without their owner’s knowledge) to create exotic creatures or curious ethnographic objects.

Talia Link’s witches are similarly clad in a combination of accessories borrowed from different religious, cultural, and ideological contexts. Link brings these eclectic quotations together within a new system of references that offers a different perspective on this subject, and enables her to reclaim an aspect of
female history that is at once specific and imaginary.

This video was produced with the support of the Fund for Video Art and Experimental Cinema in Israel, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA, Tel Aviv

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