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Yael Bartana, Light to the Nations – Generation Ship, 2023

Yael Bartana

Light to the Nations – Generation Ship, 2023

3D printing, stainless steel, PETG (thermoplastic polyester), PA12 (nylon polymer) with mirrored base

66 x 81 x 51 in

167.6 x 205.7 x 129.5 cm

Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof

(YB 24/001)

Yael Bartana -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Kfar-Yehezkel, Israel) explores the imagery of identity and the politics of memory in her films, installations and photographs explore. Her starting point is the national consciousness propagated by her native country, Israel. Central to the work are meanings implied by terms like “homeland”, “return” and “belonging”. Bartana investigates these through the ceremonies, public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of the nation state.

In her Israeli projects, Bartana dealt with the impact of war, military rituals and a sense of threat on every-day life. Between 2006 and 2011, she has been working in Poland, creating the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, a project on the history of Polish-Jewish relations and its influence on the contemporary Polish identity. The trilogy represented Poland in the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice (2011).

In recent years Bartana has been experimenting and expanding her work within the cinematic world, presenting projects such as Inferno (2013), a “pre-enactment” of the destruction of the Third Temple, True Finn (2014), that came into being within the framework of the IHME Festival in Finland, and Pardes (2015) which was shot during a spiritual journey in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Her latest work, Simone The Hermetic, is a site-based sound installation that takes place in future Jerusalem. 

7th Berlin Biennale, 2012, Instalation view

7th Berlin Biennale, 2012

Instalation view

And Europe will be stunned, Artangel, Hornsey Town Hall, 2012, Installation view

And Europe will be stunned, Artangel, Hornsey Town Hall, 2012

Installation view

Trembling Times, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 2017, Installation view

Trembling Times, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 2017

Installation view

Video

Yael Bartana

Mary Koszmary

2007

One channel video and sound installation 16 mm film transferred to DVD color/sound

Duration: 10:50 minutes

Edition of 8