Projects 87: Sigalit Landau

Sigalit Landau (b. Israel, 1969) has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, primarily through a video trilogy that experiments with circular movements and the act of spinning. In the video projection DeadSee (2005), Landau floats in a spiral of green watermelons until the coil slowly unravels. The intensely red flesh of the fruits is revealed as they disappear, leaving the azure surface of the water nearly monochromatic. In the video Barbed Hula (2001/07) the artist hula hoops with a ring of barbed wire, and in Day Done (2007) a circle is painted around the window of a house. A constellation of barbed wire lamp-like objects, submerged in the salt-saturated Dead Sea and dried in the desert sun forming a crystallized surface, hang from the ceiling. The exhibition is lit by the self-illuminated moving images and salt-crystal chandeliers. Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art.

Projects 87: Sigalit Landau
Kurator: Klaus Biesenbach