Against the backdrop of global warming and extreme climate change, Meditech and the Holon Digital Art Center present a solo exhibition featuring the premiere of artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana. In focus: the ship of the generations
Published on: 12.2.23 15:40
Against the backdrop of global warming and extreme climate change, Meditech and the Holon Digital Art Center present a solo exhibition featuring the premiere of the artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana – “Light for Gentiles”. Bartana’s new work ‘Light for the Gentiles’ is a proposal for the survival of the human race in the event of a global catastrophe that will leave no possibility of life on Earth.
Udi Edelman, curator of the exhibition and director of the Center for Digital Art, said: “The collaboration of the Center for Digital Art with Yael Bartana is long-standing and extensive. The thoughts about a new project developed in the last two years around the observation of national and international crises, natural disasters and epidemics. The ideas went through many incarnations until the exhibition The current one in which Bartana examines a possible future for human culture and the meanings of action and taking responsibility. The work creates, through a variety of mediums, a space of imagination for what can develop out of contemporary reality.’
In the tradition of science fiction literature that deals with rescue strategies, Yael Bartana concentrates on the project of building a Dorot ship. The ship will carry a large community to an unknown future, to a new settlement, to an eternal migration or to return in thousands of years to Earth. The shape of the ship is based on the Kabbalistic diagram of the Tree of Letters, and it consists of ten spherical basic structures, a structure that symbolizes an aspiration to create a complex of human existence.
Yael Bartana was born in 1970 in Kfar Yehezkel, and lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. She deals with video, performance and photography and examines images of identity and the politics of memory. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is represented in the collections of many museums, including MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Center Pompidou in Paris. A selection of solo exhibitions: The Jewish Museum in Berlin (2021), Modena Foundation for Visual Art (2020/2019); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018), Stedelijk Museum of Art in Amsterdam (2015), Vienna Secession (2012), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012), Moderna Museum, Malmo (2010), MoMA PS1 in New York (2008). The Venice Biennale – the Polish Pavilion (2001).
A selection of group exhibitions: Biennale in Sao Paulo (2014, 2010, 2006), Biennale in Berlin (2012), Documenta 12 (2007), Biennale in Istanbul (2005), Manifesta 4 (2002). She won the Artes Mundi 4 prize (2010) and the trilogy “And Europe is amazed” was ranked ninth in the Guardian magazine’s list of the most important works of art of the 21st century (2019).
The current exhibition consists of a series of video installations, a virtual reality environment, animation and sculpture. Curator: Udi Edelman, artistic consultant: Dorit Levita Hartan. The ship’s architect: Assaf Kimmel. The exhibition is held with the generous support of the Mondrian Foundation and the Lottery Council for Culture and Art.
The opening of the exhibition on Thursday, February 23 at 8:00 p.m., at the Digital Art Center, Holon. The exhibition will be open to the public until 10.06.23. Opening Hours:
Tuesday 20:00-16:00, Wednesday 18:00-14:00, Thursday 18:00-14:00, Saturday 15:00-11:00.