IRIT BATSRY, Screen, new video installation
2013-10-02 - 2013-10-09
aut aut arte contemporânea is pleased to present Screen, a new installationby Irit Batsry in which the artist questions fundamental notions of cinematic vocabulary and the way images are created and perceived.
In Screen, Batsry divides the gallery space by installing Film Screen,
a large hand crafted ‘screen' composed of clusters of 35MM film held
together by binders. Light, a video loop depicting projectors and reflectors on a film set being adjusted by the crew is projected through this porous ‘screen', affirming light as a primary condition to the existence of the image and creating a complex image that includes the projected video, the shadows of the film clusters as well as ‘animated drawings' composed of moving circles of
light created by the reflection of the film clusters lit by the video projector.
The viewers are able to enter ‘behind the screen' into an unusual ‘projection booth'- the enclosed space between the screen and the walls on which the images appears.
Irit Batsry is an artist working in installations, video and photography. Her work has been exhibited in 35 different countries and is part of the collections of the Israel Museum, MoMA in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
She was awarded the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award in 2002, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1992, the Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris in 1996 and in 2001, and the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2002 as well as other fellowships, residencies and International festivals prizes.
Her work was shown at the National Gallery in Washington, the National Film Theater in London, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and the Museu d'Arte Moderna in Rio among others. In 2006 the Jeu de Paume in Paris organized a retrospective of her video work.
Irit Batsry was born In Israel in 1957, since 1983 she lives and works in New York and elsewhere.
More information: www.iritbatsry.com et http://www.iritbatsryrecent.blogspot.com/
Irit Batsry, Screen, new video installation
October 2 - November 9, 2013
Wed - Sat 14:00 - 18:00 and by appointment.
aut aut arte contemporânea
rua alberto ribeiro 22, Rio de Janeiro.
