The artwork features a bold, neon-like text against a warm, fiery orange backdrop. The vibrant, cursive lettering declares the message "We shall be strong in our weakness," highlighting an inspirational and empowering sentiment. The striking visual style and conceptual statement evoke a sense of resilience, vulnerability, and the power that can emerge from acknowledging one's weaknesses. The artwork likely reflects the artist's intention to convey a message of hope and the notion that strength can be found in embracing our imperfections. ...
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. ...
