On Cohabitation

Artist: Yael Bartana

Curators: Ana Paula Cohen, Peta Rake

June 22 – September 18, 2016 at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre

On Cohabitation brings together a series of films by Israeli artist Yael Bartana (1970, Kfar-Yehezkel, lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam). In the exhibition space, Inferno (2013) and True Finn (2014) are installed and presented in parallel to programmed screenings of Bartana’s recent work, Pardes (Orchard) (2015). The selection interlaces many of the dominant topics present in her work, such as the politics of re-enactment and performance of identity, often in relation to shifting notions of statehood. The three works draw on differing genres of contemporary filmmaking–from the conventions of fiction and documentary to reality television.