page_title: Miri Nishri
section_title: Selected installations
hierarchical_section_title: Miri Nishri / Selected installations
caption_attribution_description: English: Yoko Ono's response from the project "Is this Baby Yours?" by Miri Nishri to be used in her Wikipedia page עברית: תגובתה של יוקו אונו מתוך הפרויקט "האם תינוק זה הוא שלך?" מאת מירי נשרי לשימוש בערך על האמנית כדוגמה לעבודותיה
context_page_description: Miri Nishri is an interdisciplinary Israeli artist.
context_section_description: Blue Blue (1981) Nisri's first video art, constructed of two television sets running simultaneously, deals with the boundaries of the artistic medium within the screen. The work uses simply shaped elements, various repetitions and duplications, fake "malfunctions" of the video equipment as well as "quotations"  from literature, philosophical theoriy and musical notes. Ha'ir's art critic Ronnie Sher wrote: "The video reminded me of Jean-Luc Godard's "Number Two" in structure and performance […] The common grounds between Godard and modern Avant-garde is the basic artistic concept: dealing weith the world through self-reflection, making a movie about making a movie. During the 1980s, this work was shown at the Tel Aviv Museum and Israel Museum, and twice at Haifa Museum almost twenty years later: in 2003 in the exhibition "Communication Interferences" which dealt with important art works by the first generation of video artists in Israel, and again in 2008 as part of the exhibition "Check Point" which summarized the 1980s in Israel's art world.
  Leopards (1981) a series of drawings in mixed techniques, using the wood's natural texture to simulate the leopards rosettes, while integrating sculptural elements, synthetic materials such as polyester, glass fibers and acrylics and natural materials like dirt, clay and bones. Nishri said: "I'm interested in forcing sculptural elements onto the painting surface in a way of contrast. The painting surface is decorative and lean in contrast with the heavy and rough sculptural elements.
  Is this Baby Yours? (2000) a two year mail correspondence project. Nishri sent out 300 boxes, with an embryo painted inside each, to intellectuals, artists and men and women of power. The boxes sent to both men and women also contained the question "will you recognize your paternity over this baby?" The 120 responses she received from people around the world (including Yoko Ono, Avi Mograbi, the Dalai Lama and the Pope) were shown at an exhibition at Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery. In 2003 she published a book documenting the project and responses.
  Troubled Water (2006) a video installation documenting the crumbling consciousness of Gita, Nishri's mother. Gita, a Holocaust survivor in her last days, refuses to move to a home for the elderly, in fear that it is a mere euphemism for a Nazi death camp. Gita mixes her identity with that of the wife of a fireman killed on 9/11.The installation was shown at the Artist's House in Tel Aviv (2007), the Lulea Summer Biennale in Sweden (2007) and at the Stuttgarter Filmwinter in Germany (2010). The video art version has been shown in exhibitions and festivals around the world, including: Olympolis Festival (Greece), Human Emotions Festival (Italy) and Cologneoff Festival (Germany).
caption: Yoko Ono's response from the project "Is this Baby Yours?", 2000
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