Yael
Bartana
Yael
Bartana
Bartana
Israeli artist Yael Bartana takes a critical, poetic look at nationalist symbolism, starting with his native country’s, and the utopia of a shared state.
Combining photography, installations and video, her work explores the themes of belonging to a land of origin, identity and the role that collective memory plays in building a country. Her early videos feature social, folk or military rites, which she altered and distorted by working on the sound and slowing down the images’ motion. She has recently begun to integrate fictional elements and scripted situations into potentially real narratives.
Bartana's video Vertical Attempt is in the Pinault Collection. It was shown during the 2012 exhibition "Parole des Images" (“Word of Images”) focusing on the moving image, at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
Combining photography, installations and video, her work explores the themes of belonging to a land of origin, identity and the role that collective memory plays in building a country. Her early videos feature social, folk or military rites, which she altered and distorted by working on the sound and slowing down the images’ motion. She has recently begun to integrate fictional elements and scripted situations into potentially real narratives.
Bartana's video Vertical Attempt is in the Pinault Collection. It was shown during the 2012 exhibition "Parole des Images" (“Word of Images”) focusing on the moving image, at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
