ISRAEL TOURISM
November 2022
THE DEAD SEA AS AN ART MEDIUM AND A WORKSHOP IN A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM A Major New Exhibition at the Israel Museum Explores Renowned Israeli Artist Sigalit Landau’s Engagement with the Dead Sea over Two Decades
S igalit Landau is a leading force in the Israeli art scene. For the past twenty years, the sculptor and video and installation artist has developed a pioneering art practice centered around the Dead Sea – a mythical, ecological, and historically charged landscape that has had a profound influence on the artist since childhood. Her exploration and innovative practices have turned the
Dead Sea into a medium and a workshop, playing off its singular properties and its water’s ability to transform objects. A new exhibition at the Israel Museum, Sigalit Landau: The Burning Sea, illuminates this prolific period in the artist’s career, spanning a fascinating range of sculptures, installations, video works, and photographs, including the premiere of new works and
The first part of the exhibition gives the impression of being underwater in a dramatic and mysterious space featuring objects Landau resurrected from the sea. Fishing nets, barbed-wire constructions, a ballet tutu, and other items underwent a process of crystallization in the salty waters of the Dead Sea, which turned them into salt- encrusted, otherworldly works of art.
sculptures from the artist’s acclaimed series of objects transformed by the Dead Sea’s salt-rich waters.
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