Keren Cytter
29 Jan - 27 Mar 2011
KEREN CYTTER
The Hottest Day of the Year
29 January - 27 March, 2011
In a modern society in which every sense of reality and memory is controlled by visual impulse, it is the Berlin based artist Keren Cytter (*1977, Tel Aviv) that describes a human emotion that is controlled by scripted archetypes and visual references. It is this language that continues to inspire the artist as well as her audience, offering a powerful juxtaposition between a visual and a scripted worldview.
Keren Cytter has become a key player within a young generation of contemporary artists that freely cross the borders of disciplines and genres. After her first German debut she has produced a large number of art-video's, feature films, novels, poetry and a dance production that is currently touring through Europe and America. However, because Cytter is known to produce a new work every time she is invited for a show, one rarely has the chance to access her complete oeuvre. Furthermore, even though her international acclaim grew strongly over the last years she has never had a comprehensive exhibition in Germany again.
It is therefore a unique and, in fact, a long overdue occasion that a show is organized that looks back into the recent evolution in Cytter's oeuvre, providing ample proof of the diversity of her practice and its impressive quantity.
The Hottest Day of the Year
29 January - 27 March, 2011
In a modern society in which every sense of reality and memory is controlled by visual impulse, it is the Berlin based artist Keren Cytter (*1977, Tel Aviv) that describes a human emotion that is controlled by scripted archetypes and visual references. It is this language that continues to inspire the artist as well as her audience, offering a powerful juxtaposition between a visual and a scripted worldview.
Keren Cytter has become a key player within a young generation of contemporary artists that freely cross the borders of disciplines and genres. After her first German debut she has produced a large number of art-video's, feature films, novels, poetry and a dance production that is currently touring through Europe and America. However, because Cytter is known to produce a new work every time she is invited for a show, one rarely has the chance to access her complete oeuvre. Furthermore, even though her international acclaim grew strongly over the last years she has never had a comprehensive exhibition in Germany again.
It is therefore a unique and, in fact, a long overdue occasion that a show is organized that looks back into the recent evolution in Cytter's oeuvre, providing ample proof of the diversity of her practice and its impressive quantity.