Sigalit Landau (born in 1969 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist. In 2008 she has made an extrairdinary video exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York – The Dead Sea. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
She has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, primarily through a video trilogy that experiments with circular movements and the act of spinning. In her brilliant work, the Dead Sea, Landau emerges from a coil of watermelons which are buoyant in the Dead Sea water. This video installation shows the artist floating in a spiral of green watermelons until the coil slowly unravels. The film was shot in mid August 2004 in the area of Sdom south of Masada.
She is floating locked inside the spiral layers between the center and the periphery of the sweet raft. She is reaching out against the direction of the turning raft towards a small area in the spiral where the fruit is wounded, red and exposed like herself to the sting of the salt. The salt solution of the dead sea enables everything to float on its illusive surface. The spiral gradually becomes a thin green line abandoning the viewer.
The intensely red flesh of the fruits is revealed as they disappear, leaving the azure surface of the water nearly monochromatic. In addition, a constellation of sculptural lamp-like objects made of barbed wire have been submerged in the salt-saturated Dead Sea and dried in the desert sun, forming a crystallized surface. The exhibition is lit by the self-illuminated moving images and salt-crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.
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