| The Hunt-the-Slipper project is an impossible archive-like
space, a library of memories and experiences, an intersection between
myth and reality employing and fusing multiple disciplines; photography,
silkscreen printing, film, sculpture and architecture. The form
of the work is based on specific places/spaces and my memory of
them, while at the same time the work itself eliminates the personal
narrative.
The film Palindrome portrays two repetitive images that in the
end
converge into one: a young girl in an igloo performing a Sisyphean
task- trying to warm herself and the igloo, and a coyote running
in a snowy landscape. I deliberately try to keep meaning ambiguous
and
multifaceted. Both the weasel and coyote are highly evolved animals,
and both are historically associated with mythic, supernatural powers.
They inhabit with easy grace a pure and natural landscape, unlike
the girl, who is relegated to futile endeavors in constrained environments.
— Orit Raff
Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: The Museum of Israeli
Art, Ramat Gan, Israel; Julie Saul, New York; Bineth, Tel Aviv; Yezerski,
Boston; 2001: Hosfelt, San Francisco; Borowsky, Philadelphia; 2000:
Hosfelt, San Francisco; Baumgartner, New York; Houston Center for
Photography; Julie Saul, New York; Paula Bottcher, Berlin; 1999: Museum
of Modern Art, Haifa; 1998: The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan,
Israel.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Gene(sis): Contemporary
Art Explores Human Genomics, Art Museum, Berkeley; 2002: Marshim-Identitasok,
National Gallery, Budapest; Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human
Genomics, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. |
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