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| Yael Bartana |
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Born in 1970 in Afula, Israel, Yael Bartana lives and works in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. Her films and photographs explore the value-systems of Israel, a nation caught in an ongoing political struggle with its neighboring Arab countries. Her works capture small-scale rituals in public or semi-public spaces, from spontaneous manifestations to organized gatherings, revealing how these social events shape personal identity. Bartana strategically makes use of a subjective and often intimate vantage point, through editing devices such as slowing down the real-time of selected video sequences. She attempts to elicit honest personal responses from her viewers, to contrast and potentially reveal the state-sanctioned codes of conduct and systems of beliefs at work in her native country.
Yael Bartana has had recent solo exhibitions at The Power Plant in Toronto (2007), Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2007), Foksal Gallery, Warsaw (2007) and the Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (2006). Her work has also notably been shown as part of Documenta 12, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2007), the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial (2006) and the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005). She has been awarded the Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis from the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2005) and the Anselm Kiefer Prize from The Wolf Foundation, Israel (2003). Yael Bartana works with Annet Gelink in Amsterdam, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie in Vienna and Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv. |
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