Yael Bartana
By: editor, Nicole Schweizer
Contributors: Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne
Publisher: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag
Published: 2017
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783037644928
Subjects: Video art; Installations (Art); Exhibitions
Description: This first monograph dedicated to the work of Yael Bartana (born 1970 in Kfar Yehezkel, Israel; lives and works in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tel Aviv) gives a comprehensive overview of the artist's films, installations, performative projects, photographs, and sound works of the past 15 years. From Bartana's early video vignettes to her most recent project "What if Women Ruled the World?" (2017), by way of her monumental trilogy "And Europe Will Be Stunned" (2007-2011) with which she represented Poland at the 54th Venice Biennale, the book highlights the artist's fascination with the ways in which social rituals shape both individual identities and collective memory. Far from a mode of direct documentation, Bartana's works are themselves modeled on the aesthetics of the ritual, and are therefore, above all, performative works, which unapologetically seduce us. Her films draw attention to the fact that cinema is a ritual, and that the camera, perhaps better than any other device, mimics the ritualistic in its ability to fetishize, seduce, and draw us into the ceremony we are watching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 158).

Text in English and French.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Yael Bartana - trembling times", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, May 19 - August 20, 2017.
Table of contents: title: Fictionalizing the real / Nicole Schweizer; title: The hailing power of the ritual / Gil Z. Hochberg; title: Works (2017-2013); title: Keynotes in Yael Bartana's sonic landscapes / Nora M. Alter; title: Pre-enactment : about mythical time / Emmanuel Alloa; title: Works (2012-2000); title: Embrace weakness! A conversation / Yael Bartana & Erika Balsom; title: In praise of heretics, or: what if women ruled the world? / Juli Carson.