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.
TASHLIKH
According to the Jewish custom of the Tashlikh, the casting off of sins is symbolised by throwing bread, breadcrumbs, and other objects into water. Here, items ranging from clothing and dishes to toys are thrown away: a psychological liberation from objects that have survived the trauma of genocide?
Credits
original title TASHLIKH
international title TASHLIKH
german title TASHLIKH
JFBB section YAEL BARTANA - Films
country/countries IL
year 2017
duration 11 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).