The Dance (after Matisse, 2015)
Laser-cut birch plywood, pumps, mock honey: glycerin, rooibos tea extract, food coloring, honey fragrance
The installation depicts a tight-knit circle of generic male figures immersed in a ritualistic male dance. The figures are steeped in their own saccharin juices. Five pumps continuously suck the liquid out of the pool, infusing the figures through their big toes. The Dance is one of a series of recent works that addresses aspects of Israeli cultural identity. The installation utilizes generic digital design and production tools to fabricate an installation that is wholly synthetic. It plays on new media concepts of Modularity, Automation and Variability to reflect upon a society inundated with self-indulgent chauvinistic and nationalistic rituals of masculinity.
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
