{"id":9596,"date":"2011-01-17T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2011-02-20T02:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T09:36:21","slug":"sigalit-landau-work-in-process-for-the-2011-venice-art-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=9596","title":{"rendered":"Sigalit Landau – Work in Process for the 2011 Venice Art Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sigalit Landau\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sigalit Landau, who will represent Israel at the 2011 Venice Art Biennale, opened her studio this evening to talk about the project still in process: one man\u2019s floor is another man\u2019s feeling.<\/p>\n

Binding together the metaphoric and the material in one image, poetic and political, the allusive title generates a concept with ample room for imagination. In the presence of curator Ilan Wizgan (co-curator Jean de Loisy was unfortunately unable to participate in the meeting) and Kamel Mennour and Marie-Sophie Eich\u00e9 of the Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris, Landau revealed just enough to inspire curiosity.<\/p>\n

Working with three essential elements: water, land and salt, Landau\u2019s project will relate to the Israeli pavilion itself. \u201cSigalit is going to work primarily with the structure of the building,\u201d said Wizgan, \u201ca 50s modernist building designed by Zeev Rechter. We have the feeling that he was dreaming of living there. Her point of departure will be relating to the architecture and history of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landau emphasized the pavilion is \u201creally small, no way it will be a huge installation. It\u2019s not Helena Rubinstein (referring to her 2005 exhibit there \u2013 The Endless Solution).\u201d Of the project itself, Landau said, \u201cIt\u2019s site specific, celebrating the water that is there.\u201d Taking off from the phrase \u201cOne man\u2019s floor is another man\u2019s ceiling\u201d Landau relates to issues of interdependence, the communities and societies that live in this region, adjacent to one another, sharing land and culture, saying, \u201cEvery time I discover something new in this place. It\u2019s also about responsibility\u2026maybe something that has to do with the birth of my child.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project relates closely to the pavilion itself, some of Landau\u2019s requirements have . \u201cI\u2019m going to challenge their property a little bit,\u201d said Landau, who also commented, \u201cI do know some secrets about the building, I was there as a youth.\u201d This will be Landau\u2019s second exhibit at the Biennale; she first represented Israel in 1997, as part of a group exhibition with Miriam Cabessa and Yossi Berger.<\/p>\n

Landau has assembled quite a team for this project, quipping, \u201cIt takes two curators to control me.\u201d Kamel Mennour explained that his role is that of a facilitator, saying, \u201cThis project is incredible, but of course, it costs money.\u201d Although the Israeli government provides funding for the project, the sum is not sufficient to cover the expected costs. Says Landau, \u201cThere\u2019s no fat. What I need, I need.\u201d<\/p>\n

On working with two curators, she says, \u201cIn the first ten years of my career I never had the honor of sharing my ideas with a curator. Now there\u2019s a real dialogue. The nice thing is when the other side surprises you. It\u2019s a shared journey, it\u2019s not a monologue. Sometimes we plan not to do something, but I still do it. I\u2019m not suffocating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Resolutely refusing to divulge details, Landau regretfully admitted, \u201cMy biggest fantasies, I had to alter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 54th Venice Art Biennale will open on June 4, 2011.<\/p>\n

AYELET DEKEL<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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