Yael Bartana—Taste it!

The evening begins with two early documentary videos by Yael Bartana, which express her critical attitude towards the everyday rituals and ceremonies of the Israeli population.
Out of "disappointed love" for her homeland, which she perceives as a huge ghetto, the artist switched to fictional works.
Her Polish Trilogy, which was subsequently shown, uses propagandistic staging and powerful language to reflect the struggle for the return of the 3.3 million displaced Jewish population to Poland and oscillates between utopian dream and manipulative ideology. Subsequently, Bartana organized the first congress of the Jewish Renaissance Movement during the Berlin Biennale 2012 and also reaped critical reactions, including accusations of anti-Zionism.
(Yael Bartana, from: Polish Trilogy, 2007-2011)

Yael Bartana lives in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

Exhibitions (selection): Secession, Vienna (2012); 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2012); Polish Pavilion, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2011); documenta 12, Kassel 2007.