Israel
• 1969
Biography
Sigalit Landau merges a range of personal and national concerns in her site-specific installations, performances, and videos. Although Landau calls herself a “bridge maker”—connecting East and West, past and present—her complex works tend to focus on circularity and often reference her native Israel.
Barbed Hula (2000) is a video of the artist, who is nude on an beach in Israel, performing a dance with a barbed-wire hula hoop, while in DeadSee (2005), she floats amidst an unraveling coil of watermelons, turning over each fruit to reveal its blood-red flesh.
Her works often fuse performance and installation, improvisation and explicit reference to the excesses of consumerism. In Thread Waxing Space Installation (2001), for example, she occupied a gallery space for three weeks, filling it with spun sugar that she would wade through, replenish, and unwittingly send home with visitors as it stuck to their clothing
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Barbed Hula (2000) is a video of the artist, who is nude on an beach in Israel, performing a dance with a barbed-wire hula hoop, while in DeadSee (2005), she floats amidst an unraveling coil of watermelons, turning over each fruit to reveal its blood-red flesh.
Her works often fuse performance and installation, improvisation and explicit reference to the excesses of consumerism. In Thread Waxing Space Installation (2001), for example, she occupied a gallery space for three weeks, filling it with spun sugar that she would wade through, replenish, and unwittingly send home with visitors as it stuck to their clothing
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1969