UNNATURAL
UNNATURAL reflects the freedom of the imagination and the wonders of simulation technology, which make the inconceivable conceivable. Opposite: Ori Gersht, still from Falling Bird, 2008, digital HD film, sound, 5:53 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Below: Meirav Heiman & Yossi Ben Shoshan, Sperm Whale, 2009, four-channel HD video installation, sound, 216-1/2 x 521-5/8 x 194-7/8”, courtesy of the artists; Thanks: The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel; Nadav Smulian & the Israeli Fund for Video Art and Experimental Cinema
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filled coral reef—where even the beach sand was artificially imported—further strengthens the tangible relationship between the “natural” and the “unnatural.” Artists represented include: Boaz Aharonovitch, Aziz + Cucher, Céleste BoursierMougenot and Ariane Michel, Einat Arif-Galanti, Blane De St Croix, Rose-Lynn Fisher,
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Ori Gersht, Meirav Heiman and Yossi Ben Shoshan, Hilja Keading, Freddy Shachar Kislev, Sigalit Landau, Dana Levy, Tobias Madison, Richard Mosse, Gilad Ratman, Samantha Salzinger, Tomer Sapir, Yehudit Sasportas, Michal Shamir, Uri Shapira, Jennifer Steinkamp, Gal Weinstein, Wendy Wischer, and Guy Zagursky. O n V iew
2012