Sigalit Landau is an Israeli sculptor and performance artist. She effectively shows the gruesome horrors of punishment and torture of the Jewish people through her work. There is a video of her naked in which she is hula-hooping with a circle of barbed wire that maims her skin. She sculpts skinless people of twisted muscle and bone who seek suicide. And yet, she amazes with the simple beauty of her other works. A photo of her swimming naked in a spiral of watermelons. Barbed wire and a whole motorcycle covered in salt crystals. Sweet or bitter, they are powerful images nonetheless.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Landau is an Israeli sculptor and performance artist. She effectively shows the gruesome horrors of punishment and torture of the Jewish people through her work. There is a video of her naked in which she is hula-hooping with a circle of barbed wire that maims her skin. She sculpts skinless people of twisted muscle and bone who seek suicide. And yet, she amazes with the simple beauty of her other works. A photo of her swimming naked in a spiral of watermelons. Barbed wire and a whole motorcycle covered in salt crystals. Sweet or bitter, they are powerful images nonetheless.
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