Beyond Guilt #3 finds Amir and Sela in another hotel room, this time with a 50-something career prostitute. They hand her the camera and conduct the interview from the other side of the lens. Interspersed with questions about her career, the pair ask her what she sees, how she would describe them. This role reversal is the most obvious of Amir and Sela’s maneuvers, but they don’t pretend to have subverted their dominion. Even as objects of the camera’s gaze, they know they have the ultimate say. From the front of the camera, they direct the prostitute’s photography and demand her commentary. They enact the impossibility of their submission. At the end of the video, the prostitute joins them on the bed. Together, in costumes, they pose languidly for their viewers. In all three of the videos, Amir and Sela resist didactic moralizing or abnegation of their responsibility. Each is filled with laughter and dancing, and characterized by a certain openness, the sense that at any point, it could swing in a new direction. (Chen Tamir)
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
