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Dreamtalk, 2005 (video still), video, 10:00 minutes, sound, courtesy of the artist and Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Keren Cytter

 

Keren Cytter examines the relationship between individuals and groups, and the ways in which social and cultural clichés control our understanding of everyday reality. This work captures a complex human situation involving a love triangle based on unrealized fantasies. A couple and an additional male friend engage in a fragmented and inarticulate discussion about attraction to women: one of the men expresses his attraction for a real woman, while the other speaks of his attraction to Sandra - a participant in a reality show whom he views as his ideal woman. As the work unfolds, the difference between these two types of attraction is gradually blurred to the point of disappearing. The intentionally "bad" acting, and the characters' outfits, manner of speech and way of expressing themselves transform the figures into stereotypes of themselves. In this manner, the entire situation comes to resemble an exaggerated cliché of a reality show, and by extension of life itself.

Born in Tel Aviv, 1977; lives and works in Berlin 
 
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