Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Landau (* 1969 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli sculptor , video artist and installation artist .
life and work
As a child, Landau lived in Philadelphia and London for several years and grew up bilingual. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design between 1990 and 1995 and did an exchange semester at the Cooper Union . After graduating, she spent several years in London. She currently lives in Tel Aviv .
Her complex works address a number of social, humanitarian and ecological issues, but also the everyday struggle for survival and the search for identity. It takes up historical as well as current references. Violence and oppression, homelessness, displacement, the relationships between victim and perpetrator, between decay and growth are recurring themes. Often the human body plays a role, it often works with its own body.
Somnanbulin / Bauchaus is a performance that took place between 2000 and 2004. Landau traveled with a jukebox converted truck mixer and distributed Eskimo Limon. The ice cream refers to the fairy tale The little girl with the sulfur sticks by Hans Christian Andersen .
DeadSee from 2005 is a video. Dozens of watermelons can be seen in a row, floating in a spiral in the water. In some, the pulp is visible. Sigalit Landau is floating in the middle of the melons while the spiral is slowly pulled apart. The Dead Sea repeatedly plays a role in her work, both as a place and as a symbol, e.g. B. in the picture series "Salt Bride" from 2016, with which she depicts the transformation of a tailor-made coat of Lea from Salomon An-ski's piece " Der Dibbuk " into a salt structure.
Landau received numerous awards. She mainly exhibits in Germany, the USA, Israel and France.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1997: 47th Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 1997: Resident Alien documenta X , Kassel
- 2005: Armory Show , New York
- 2008: Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 2011: 54th Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 2011: lichtsicht , Bad Rothenfelde
- 2019: Salt Years Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Salzburg
literature
- Sigalit Landau eds. Gabriele Horn, Ruth Ronen. Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Adi Efal, Lia Gangitano, Gideon Ofrat, Ruth Ronen, Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Zvi Szir, Tali Tamir. Hatje Cantz, 2008, ISBN 978-3-77572-1-042 (German / English).
- Sigalit Landau: The Salt Years by Moshe Ninio (Editor), Tal Sterngast (Author), Rona Cohen (Author), Kerber, Christof; Edition: 1 (August 1, 2017), ISBN 978-3-73560-2-626 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Documenta X short guide, page 132/133, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 .
- ↑ a b Feminist Art Archive Sigalit Landau , accessed on March 23, 2016 (English).
- ↑ America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sigalit Landau , accessed on March 23, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Artist Leaves Dress In The Dead Sea For 2 Months And It Turns Into Glittering Salt Crystal . In: Bored Panda , August 25, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landau, Sigalit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli sculptor, video artist and installation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |