Miri Segal
Miriage
of Contemporary Art
Curator: Dr. Aya Lurie
Exhibition Catalog
List of works
· Cursed Spirits
· Miriage
·
Lament
·
Being Miri Segal
·
Portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto
AKA Anonymous Gazes Cross
·
Temporary Relief
· Neverfall
· The Shining
·
Sergey B.
· Don’t Be Evil
· BRB
· Place de la Bonne Heure
· Still life in cucumber season
· Necrofleur
· Vapor
· Exhibition Text by:Aya Lurie
Unless otherwise stated works are courtesy of Miri Segal and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
The work was generously supported by the Cultural Council of the Israel National Lottery - Mifal HaPais.
Miri Segal: Miriage is supported by the
Artis Grant Program
Still Images in this catalogue by: Lena Gomon
Videographer: Asi Oren
MIRI SEGAL
Miri Segal’s artistic language, crystallized over the past twenty years, employs a variety of media – including video, light and text, treated objects involving hardware and software, photographic and computer-manipulated imagery. Through the involvement of sensory and physical manipulations, optical illusions, word games and enticing technological experiences, Segal's works often invade the viewer's space in unexpected ways. Floating images, Technological Ghosts, shadows without body and the Purgatorium - serve to subtly speculate on our capacity to apprehend concrete reality. Segal’s works reflect her interest in philosophical questions regarding Existence, Ethics of Technology, and Economic-Political Regimes.
AYA LURIE
Aya Lurie, PhD., is the Director and Chief Curator of The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Lurie is also a Lecturer at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in the curatorial program of Israeli Art studies, and serves in several judicial prize committees (Art, Museum & Curatorship) in varied professional leading venues. She was the former Chief curator of the Shpilman institute for Photography.
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Neverfall
Mixed media: Roulette, wood, engine, software, sensors
Image: Roulette in motion
Created in collaboration with Gideon Gechtman (posthumously), and with the authorization of Bat-Sheva Zeisler-Gechtman; also in collaboration with Shachar Geiger and Avi Lubin
In this work the ball and the roulette are frozen in movement - the roulette is constantly moving in one direction, while the ball moves in the opposite
direction. This is not a photographic freeze, denouncing the movement or smearing it on top of photographic pallet. It is an actual freeze during which the
object transcends beyond a simple existence, exceeding the rules of time and space. For more details: see online catalog