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Standing on a watermelon in the Dead Sea

Artist: Sigalit Landau
Production year: 2004
Duration: 00:05:21
Catalogued as: EXPERIMENTAL, PERFORMANCE, APPROPRIATION, BODY/DANCE

Galleries:
Anita Beckers

Standing on a Watermelon in the Dead Sea, the artist's body is seen trying to keep it's balance while mounting the fruit underwater. The attempt to keep a vertical equilibrium while immersed in the salty water is a simile of gravitation defeated; it is here, underwater and at the lowest spot on Earth, that a spectacle of hovering, almost taking flight, unfolds. The video's elongated vertical projection in the exhibition space offers a multi-iconic reading: fertility effigy, crucified female fig

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