Yael Bartana

Yael Bartana

BornNationalityBased In
1970IsraeliBerlin, Amsterdam
Biography

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. ...

Selected Artworks
we shall be strong in our weakness (BIG)
Yael Bartanawe shall be strong in our weakness (BIG), 2012190 x 50cmPrice on Request
Awards
Artes Mundi2010
Artes Mundi2010