Gilad Ratman has been selected to present The
Workshop (2013), a multichannel site-specific installation at
the Israeli Pavilion at this year’s 55th International Art Exhibition – La
Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by the Israel Ministry for Culture and Sport,
Ratman is one of the youngest artists ever to be chosen for the Israeli
Pavilion.
Ratman works primarily with
film and installation, often distorting and disrupting narrative as a way to examine
the friction between thereal and imaginary. The op position between universal
patterns of human behaviour - as definedthrough language, nationality, government
or other kinds of representation - is a key concern inRatman’s work, expressed
through gestures that draw attention to resistance through struggle.
The
Workshop documents thejourney of a community of people from Israel to Venice,
through a nonlinear presentation of video, installation, sound and a physical
intervention in the fabric of the Pavilion itself. The
Workshop’s site-specificity reflects on
the Biennale as a utopian model of nations’ connectivity.
Ratman shows a world where
transit can take place across national borders in hidden networks – free,
undetected and unidentified. For this – operating in small communities in a
utopian, presocial and even pre-linguistic stage, as the ones recurrent in
Ratman’s work – is essential.
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