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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The Shining
Mixed media: Roulette, wood, engine, software, sensors
This
light artwork consists of fragments of panels of unpolished glass and
an incandescent lamp.
From a particular angle one can discern a multi-layered reflection of
these elements in
each other – creating an attractive lighting effect. The object’s
plain appearance belies its
grandiose English title (The
Shining), with its
associations with ballrooms, crystal and splendor
as well as to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film, The
Shining.
The Hebrew title, too – Neḥamah Purta (from Aramaic, “scant comfort”) – suggests economic discordance. The seductive guise of the capitalist marketing ploy of suggesting prestige is an illusion forged from nothing more than a glittering pile of glass fragments – a “poor man’s chandelier” that suggests positive thinking as a manipulation of desire.
Text: Aya Lurie
The Hebrew title, too – Neḥamah Purta (from Aramaic, “scant comfort”) – suggests economic discordance. The seductive guise of the capitalist marketing ploy of suggesting prestige is an illusion forged from nothing more than a glittering pile of glass fragments – a “poor man’s chandelier” that suggests positive thinking as a manipulation of desire.
Text: Aya Lurie