In her new work, “The Jerusalem Experience,” Efrat Shvily, in collaboration with Oren Myers, is looking at ways in which historic Jerusalem is being made into an “experience” with the help of advanced technology, for the benefit of its visitors but no less so for the benefit of political, religious, and commercial forces.
Efrat Shvily
A project in collaboration with Efrat Shvily and Oren Myers
Co-produced by Camera Austria.
Curated by Reinhard Braun and Joerg Bader
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Opening on Thursday 1st June from 18:00
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Saturday June 3 at 14:30
Public talk with Efrat Shvily, Marie-José Mondzain & Joerg Bader.
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Thursday June 22 from 18:30 to 20:30
Cinéma Dynamo – Centre d’art contemporain
Screening of Yael Bartana’s film “INFERNO” (22 min.), in relation to her solo exhibition in Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (exhibition until August 20 in Lausanne)
The viewers of the show will get a taste of the Jerusalem “experience” as filmed and photographed in both Jerusalem, Israel, and in São Paulo, Brazil, where the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) last year inaugurated the monumental Third Temple of Solomon, built according to “biblical” proportions. Assaulted by a barrage of image and sound, the viewers will be challenged to tell the old Jerusalem from the new, the real from the fake, and the literal from the metaphorical.
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Efrat Shvili’s photographs and videos give expression to socio-political processes and phenomena in a wide range of genres from landscape photography to portraiture. Her subject is Israeli society and identity, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her work combines formalistic perception with a conceptual approach, encompassing both socio-political and personal narratives. In its dialectical outlook, her oeuvre confronts the viewer with a complex position: point counterpoint, one r [...]
Efrat Shvili’s photographs and videos give expression to socio-political processes and phenomena in a wide range of genres from landscape photography to portraiture. Her subject is Israeli society and identity, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her work combines formalistic perception with a conceptual approach, encompassing both socio-political and personal narratives. In its dialectical outlook, her oeuvre confronts the viewer with a complex position: point counterpoint, one reality vis-à-vis another, individual versus community. Shvili became well-known for her two early series, both presented in CPG, ”New Homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories“ (1992–1998) and ”Palestinian Cabinet Ministers“ (2000). While the first series questioned the relationship between Israelis and the land through photographs of austere landscapes and construction sites, the second series gave visibility to a new image of the Palestinian as statesman rather than terrorist. In her later works, Shvili examined myths and rituals that have to do with the formation of the Israeli identity and collective memory. During her career, Shvili has exhibited in a number of leading international venues including the 50th Venice Biennale, the NY Photography Triennial, the KW Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Center for Contemporary Art Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the 8th International Istanbul Biennial.
