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| CologneOFF 2013 USA Gallery Aferro (Newark, New Jersey) New Media Room Feb 23 - March 30, 2013 Opening reception: Feb 23, 7-10 PM 73 Market Street Newark, NJ 07102, USA Video selected by MI's curator, Alysse Stepanian: Israeli-born, London-based artist Guli Silberstein uses documentary footage found online, depicting a young woman who tries to protect a group of civilians from the weapons of Israeli soldiers. This powerful image in “Disturbdance” shows the human side of war. One wonders whether the two soldiers are as affected by the image of this heroic woman, as are the viewers. (also see MI #19) Visit Global Art & Moving Images Awards blog... Download PDF catalog here... |
 BIO: Guli Silberstein (b. 1969) is an Israeli-born, London-based video artist. He received a BA in Film & TV from Tel-Aviv University in 1997 and a MA in Media Studies, specializing in digital video and media art, from New School University, New York City, in 2000. Since then, he has been working with appropriation to produce video art works dealing with situations of war & terror, cognitive processes and electronic media, which have been extensively presented in festivals, museums and galleries including: Transmediale Berlin, Kassel Film and Video Festival, EMAF Osnabrueck Germany, ‘Human Frames' exhibition & DVD Lowave Paris, Museum on the Seam Jerusalem and the National Centre of Contemporary Art Moscow. BACK TO TOP |
Guli Silberstein (London/UK) ARTIST STATEMENT: “Truth to tell, the best weapon against myth is perhaps to mystify it in its turn, and to produce an artificial myth: and this reconstituted myth will in fact be a mythology” |