Wed, August 18 5:30 p.m. Cinema Delphi Lux / panel discussion: Films by Yael Bartana - with Shelley Harten and Gregor Lersch, the curation team of the exhibition “Redemption Now” featuring works by Yael Bartana, currently on show at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
INFERNO
© Yael Bartana
In 2014 the evangelical Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in São Paulo had an exact replica of the Third Temple of Solomon built. In INFERNO, devotees flock to the newly constructed building while holy relics are flown in by helicopter. Antiquity meets the present, the Middle East meets South America and fact meets fiction; yet does the construction of the replica also foreshadow its destruction?
Credits
original title INFERNO
international title INFERNO
german title INFERNO
JFBB section YAEL BARTANA - Films
country/countries IL
year 2013
duration 22 Min
Yael Bartana
BIO Yael Bartana (born Israel, 1970) is an observer of the contemporary and a pre-enactor. She employs art as a scalpel inside the mechanisms of power structures and navigates the fine and crackled line between the sociological and the imagination. Over the past twenty years, she has dealt with some of the dark dreams of the collective unconscious and reactivated the collective imagination, dissected group identities and (an-)aesthetic means of persuasion. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances and public monuments Yael Bartana investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals and collective gatherings. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and is represented in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. Selection of Solo Exhibitions: Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (2019/2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Secession, Vienna (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012); Moderna Museet, Malmö (2010); MoMA PS1, NY (2008). Selection of Group Exhibitions: São Paulo Biennial (2014, 2010, 2006); Berlin Biennial (2012); documenta 12 (2007); Istanbul Biennial (2005), Manifesta 4 (2002). She won the Artes Mundi 4 Prize (2010) and the trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned was ranked as the 9th most important art work of the 21th century by the Guardian newspaper (2019).