Sigalit Landau. Barbed Hula (from Cycle Spun, 2007).
2000. Video (color, sound), 2 min.
Sigalit Landau: internationally acclaimed Sigalit Landau represented Israel in the 1997 Venice Biennale. She has shown at prestigious international art institutions, including solo exhibitions at MOMA, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Ikon Gallery and group shows at PS1, The Brooklyn Museum, The Pompidou Centre. Work currently on show in elles@pompidou. Sigalit Landau gained acclaim for her provocative video Barbed Hula, 2000, in which the artist hula’ed naked with barbed wire, using her body in a ritualistic manner to explore transformations, history, memory, politics, borders, which will be shown in the Body in Women’s Art Now.
Sigalit Landau .|. Barbed Hula + Barbed Salt Lamps .|. 2001-07 from reel aesthete on Vimeo.
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