The Dark-Skinned Nightingle
Nevet Yitzhak
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
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Première
- Title
- The Dark-Skinned Nightingle
- Gallery
- Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
- Year
- 2013
- Duration
- 10 min
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Monochrome/Colour, Sound
Informed by extended research and scholarship, the video of Nevet Yitzhak combine archival, photographic and found materials transformed through digital animation, editing and sound treatment. Her practice is seen as a critical examination of complex geo-political concerns and the fraught relationships between global powers and the Middle East. Living in Israel as a Jewish artist of Kurdish, Syrian and Yemenite heritage, Yitzhak creates work that responds to her context, expressing her minoritized position within Israeli society and her dissent from its current politics. ‘The Dark-Skinned Nightingale’ intercuts a double spread from an illuminated Iranian manuscript with fragments from Mohammed Karim’s film Delilah, Starring Shadia and Abd el-Halim Hafz which is the first color film produced by the Egyptian film industry. Yitzhak creates a moving parallel between two epic love stories of unrequited love centered on a manipulative and destructive female figure.
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Nevet Yitzhak
- Artist
1975, Jerusalem
Nevet Yitzhak is a video artist, composer, installation artist, and cultural researcher. Her work was presented at the 6th Asian Biennial, Taiwan; the 5th Mediation Biennale, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; the Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; SMBA, Amsterdam; Kuandu Museum, Taipei; Modern Art Research Institute, Kiev; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv; Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto; Circle 1, Berlin; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin; Edel Assanti Gallery, London; 68 Square Meters, Copenhagen; Bandjoun Station, Cameroon; Jeanine Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam; TSR, Miami; Nimac Art Center, Nicosia; SIP Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv; Huashan Culture Park, Taipei and CCA, Tel- Aviv.
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- 33 Eilat Street, 6684607, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- +(972) 3 5666162
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Established in 2004, Braverman Gallery is a leading member of the contemporary art scene in Tel Aviv, specializing in video-art and installations. The gallery seeks to bring Israeli artists to international audiences by promoting them worldwide. Recent International projects and solo shows include Dana Levy’s participation in the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022), Ilit Azoulay’s representation of Israel at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Gilad Ratman permanent video installation for the Jewish Museum Berlin (2021); Bracha Ettinger at Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2021); Biljana Djurdjevic at Eva Kahan Foundation, Wien and Budapest (2021); Mohau Modisakeng at Rose Art Museum, MA (2021); Nira Pereg at Princeton University Art Museum (2021). Braverman Gallery has also encouraged exciting and cutting-edge projects from Israeli artists such as Oren Eliav’s “How to Disappear Completely” (2018) and Ilit Azoulay’s first solo exhibition in the Israel Museum “No Thing Dies” (2017), both at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.