Ofri Cnaani
dal 15/2/2011 al 22/4/2011
Segnalato da
15/2/2011
Ofri Cnaani
Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York
The Sota Project is an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Cnaani's ambitious piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.
Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce that Kunsthalle Galapagos will be presenting The Sota Project, an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Housed in an expansive, historic horse-stable above Galapagos Art Space, Ofri Cnaani's ambitious piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.
Sota, an anonymous Biblical story, recounts the tale of two sisters, Sota and Bekhorah, who are bound together in symbiotic loyalty when Sota's husband accuses her of infidelity. Against a backdrop of jealousy, betrayal, judgment, ritual humiliation, and ultimately death, Cnaani's installation depicts a deceptively simple moral parable that unfolds in countless ways.
Video projections on all four walls of the exhibition space will allow multiple narratives to develop concurrently, thus calling into question the notion of a single, coherent truth. The Sota Project uses the most current new media technologies while employing storytelling techniques inspired by ancient Greco-Roman murals and Renaissance tapestries. After Kunsthalle Galapagos' presentation, The Sota Project will travel to the Rothschild 69 in Tel Aviv.
A specially commissioned editioned sculpture, and a fully illustrated book published by Sternthal Books accompany the exhibition. Sold separately.
Ofri Cnaani was born in Israel in 1975. She currently lives in New York and works in time-based media. Recent projects include a large-scale commission to create 10 site-specific video installations relating to the architecture of 10 museums of contemporary art in Italy. Solo exhibitions / performances include: PS1/MoMA, NYC; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Pack Gallery, Milan; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Herzlyia Museum of Art, Israel. Group exhibitions include: Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arnolfini Foundation Museum, Bristol, UK; Tel Aviv Museum; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Prague Triennale.
The Sota Project has been generously supported by numerous sponsors, including a grant from The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, (a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York.); Artis; The Rabinovich Foundation; The Consulate General of Israel in NY; The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation; Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Andrea Meislin Gallery, Braverman Gallery, Rothschild 69; and Mana Contemporary.
For further information please contact Elizabeth Grady at elizabeth@kunsthallegalapagos.com or
Julie McKim at info@kunsthallegalapagos.com
Opening Reception will be held Tomorrow February 16th, from 8 – 10 pm.
Kunsthalle Galapagos
16 Man Street, Brooklyn DUMBO - New York
Hours: Tue-Sat 12-18
free admission