Congratulations to
NADAV ASSOR who has just been awarded the Young Artist Prize 2011 by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport.
This latest award follows on the heels of the prestigious $30,000 Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists.
Assor’s solo show SERET is on view at our Tel Aviv gallery from June 23 — July 30th, 2011.
To view a video interview with Assor, CLICK HERE.
In Seret, Nadav Assor presents a body of work from the last two years. The exhibition comprises two fragmented, panoramic video installations, several slit-scanned video prints framed in light-boxes, and a single-channel video. The works foreground strips and slices of bodies and memories, realities reflected through idiosyncratic, electromechanical systems.
Assor’s tableaus are perceived and mediated through the body in motion and an array of lo-fi takes on military-industrial technologies: a bicycle mounted attempt at video-mapping a 12 mile long street in Chicago, an intimate confession captured via an eye-tracking camera regularly utilized for market research, and an installation featuring a pair of robotic cameras scanning a “support group” telling stories of accidents and injuries. Whether narrated, spatialized, or both, these embodied performances are displayed at their most corporeal manifestation, intersecting with extreme states of over-mediation.
Julie M. Gallery for Contemporary Art 