CORE DUMP
Alona Rodeh
ROSENFELD GALLERY, Tel-Aviv
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- Title
- CORE DUMP
- Gallery
- ROSENFELD GALLERY, Tel-Aviv
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 12 min
- Format & Technical
4K CGI Film
- LOOP Edition
- Ed. 2024
- Presented in LOOP by
- ROSENFELD GALLERY
The short CGI film borrows its title from a term describing a computer’s documented memory when a program fails. The film’s scenery happens in a 3D-fabricated desert-like post-industrial landscape with an open dump site of household junk. Contemplating 21st-century warfare and links between environmental and geopolitical conditions, the work addresses the difficulty of transporting goods during a siege, the usage of drone swarms in warfare, the destruction of historical monuments during combat action, and more.
The film presents a flock of drones hunting for e-waste, beginning with the site observed through the window of an empty truck when a seemingly endless self-driving truck crosses its path. Then, the truck’s window opens, and the drone-like camera flies into the landfill, interacting with the drone swarms and circling the site, noticing peculiar events. Eventually, the camera is drawn to shafts found in the landfill’s center, falling into a dream-like “rabbit hole”.
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Alona Rodeh (b.1979, IL) is a Berlin-based visual artist, scenographer, and urban practitioner. Graduating with honors from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s MFA program, she is most known for creating large, immersive virtual and physical environments. Her works are frequently shown in institutional contexts, with large works and solo presentations in places such as, to name a few: Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (2024), Gwangju Biennial (2023), La Casa Encendida Madrid (2021), Kunstpalais Erlangen (2019), Salzburger Kunstverein (2019); She installed permanent public artworks in Germany and Israel. She won numerous prizes and grants, including ‘Best Immersive and Time-Based Art’ at B3 Festival of the Moving Image, Frankfurt 2024, and multiple support fundings from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn. Residencies include a year-long residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and another unique residency at the Berlin Fire Brigade. Rodeh’s works are included in numerous public collections, among them LAS Art Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum and others. She is represented by Christine König Galerie, Vienna and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv.