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Ancient Voices, 2011
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Ofri CnaaniAncient Voices, 2011
Digital print
Edition of 3 + 2 APs
16 x 25 in.
Courtesy of the artist, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York and Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
$2,000 (plus tax + shipping)
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Cnaani works in time-based media, live-cinema performances, large-scale installations, and drawing. Her video installations explore the theatrical potential of the urban space and the relationship between architecture and narrative, seeking to dissolve spatial distinctions between reality and mythical realms. Her recent works utilize defunct technologies to present her research on visual memories of the early days of Israeli history, as well as on political and sexual betrayal.
Ancient Voices is a still photograph taken from Cnaani’s recent large scale video installation, The Sota Project, which premiered in 2011 at Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York, and is traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, MARCO Roma, the Fisher Museum at the University of Southern California, LA, and Rothschild 69 in Tel Aviv. Employing an innovative form of a spatial narrative, The Sota Project uses the most current new media technologies while employing storytelling techniques inspired by ancient Greco-Roman murals and Renaissance tapestries. Video projections on all four walls of the exhibition space allowed multiple narratives to develop concurrently, thus calling into question the notion of a single, coherent truth.
The Sota Project is inspired by biblical allegory as described by James Trainor: " The anonymous story from the Talmud – recounting the tale of two sisters, Sota and Bekhorah, living in separate villages but bound together in symbiotic loyalty amidst a backdrop of jealousy, betrayal, guilt and innocence, deception, societal judgment, ritual humiliation and ultimately death – is, as Cnaani points out, a deceptively simple moral parable, one that leaves open multiple blind spots."
Ofri Cnaani (born in Israel, 1975) currently lives in New York. She received a MFA in Visual Arts from Hunter College in 2004. Cnaani is a Six Points Fellow and was twice the winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award. She is also a professor at the School of Visual Art in New York and at Transart Institute, Berlin. Her solo exhibitions and performances include: PS1/MoMA, NYC; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Kunsthalle Galapagos, NYC; 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. Cnaani is represented by Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Galleria PACK, Milan.
To reserve an edition, please contact info[a]artiscontemporary.org.
Cnaani works in time-based media, live-cinema performances, large-scale installations, and drawing. Her video installations explore the theatrical potential of the urban space and the relationship between architecture and narrative, seeking to dissolve spatial distinctions between reality and mythical realms. Her recent works utilize defunct technologies to present her research on visual memories of the early days of Israeli history, as well as on political and sexual betrayal.
Ancient Voices is a still photograph taken from Cnaani’s recent large scale video installation, The Sota Project, which premiered in 2011 at Kunsthalle Galapagos, New York, and is traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, MARCO Roma, the Fisher Museum at the University of Southern California, LA, and Rothschild 69 in Tel Aviv. Employing an innovative form of a spatial narrative, The Sota Project uses the most current new media technologies while employing storytelling techniques inspired by ancient Greco-Roman murals and Renaissance tapestries. Video projections on all four walls of the exhibition space allowed multiple narratives to develop concurrently, thus calling into question the notion of a single, coherent truth.
The Sota Project is inspired by biblical allegory as described by James Trainor: " The anonymous story from the Talmud – recounting the tale of two sisters, Sota and Bekhorah, living in separate villages but bound together in symbiotic loyalty amidst a backdrop of jealousy, betrayal, guilt and innocence, deception, societal judgment, ritual humiliation and ultimately death – is, as Cnaani points out, a deceptively simple moral parable, one that leaves open multiple blind spots."
Ofri Cnaani (born in Israel, 1975) currently lives in New York. She received a MFA in Visual Arts from Hunter College in 2004. Cnaani is a Six Points Fellow and was twice the winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award. She is also a professor at the School of Visual Art in New York and at Transart Institute, Berlin. Her solo exhibitions and performances include: PS1/MoMA, NYC; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; Kunsthalle Galapagos, NYC; 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. Cnaani is represented by Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Galleria PACK, Milan.
To reserve an edition, please contact info[a]artiscontemporary.org.
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