A Declaration, 2010

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• GENDER EQUALITY
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Archaeology
• Berlin
• Collective Memory
• Cultural Identity
• Diaspora
• Digital Photography
• Edition
• Europe
• Fiction
• Germany
• Gulf War
• Gun violence
• Holocaust
• Human Body
• Ideology
• Installation
• Israel
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Judith Butler
• Middle East
• Migration
• Mixed Media
• Patriarchy
• Performance Art
• Portrait
• Power Structure
• Propaganda
• Religion
• Second Amendement
• Social
• The Netherlands
• Trauma
• Urban
• Video
• Video Art
• Violence
• Virginia Woolf
• World War II

About this artwork

On the Andromeda Rock, off the coast of Jaffa, a man carries out a symbolic exchange. He removes the Israeli flag that was planted there in favor of a young olive tree, before sitting down, meditative, at his side.
Carried by its peaceful symbolism, Israeli artist Yael Bartana's film plays with certain nationalist codes of his country. It reuses the heroic figure of the pioneer from the early days of Israel and formally references propaganda films of the 1930s (use of close-ups, slight slow motion). There is thus a symbolic “denationalization” of the territory through the very figure, and eminently nationalist, of the pioneer.

More artworks by Yael Bartana

• Yael Bartana CHART – FREUD & HERZL (THE JRMIP SPIRITUAL FATHERS), 2013 Sommer Contemporary Art €12,000
• Yael Bartana Mary Koszmary, 2010 Sommer Contemporary Art €10,000
• Yael Bartana Mary Koszmary (girl), 2010 Sommer Contemporary Art €10,000
• Yael Bartana Mur i Wieza, 2010 Sommer Contemporary Art €15,000

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