FRIDAY, MAY 6 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 8 – 5 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 21 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 28 – 10 PM
KEREN CYTTER creates films, performances, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation, language representation and the function of individuals in predetermines cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Selected solo exhibitions include: Winterthur KunstMuseum (2020); CCA Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (2015); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014); and Show Real Drama, Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012.) Cytter was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship (2021.)
Metamorphosis (2015)
Rose Garden (2014)
A tragic story takes place in a Texan bar. Its drastic course and the lightness of the composition are opposing each other contrapuntally. A virtually musicial arrangement is formed by the repetitive employment of various elements (theme music, changing atmospheres, rifle shots). The therein presented, almost emotionless acceptance of death is contrasted by the narrative of a father speaking to his son. Rose Garden explicitely criticizes the bigot mixture of family values, American gun laws and societal behavioural patterns in general.
Siren (2014)
In Siren Keren Cytter deals with “poor images” and their mass processing and circulation by mobile and smart phone cameras with editing tools, special effects etc. The female narrator convinces her male friend to murder another man in the name of all women and the unequal treatment in the battle of the sexes. Images and scenes are repeated in different qualities and contexts, showing the wide range of ambiguous possibilites of interpretation images can have.
Object: (2016)
Russian with English subtitles
Object, 2016 was filmed in the artist’s apartment in New York. It consists of nine sequences shot from a static point of view. The camera is not panning or zooming and can only change its focus on three men and a young woman moving through narrow spaces and perpetrating cruelties against each other.