Place:
Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería, Pabellón 2
Time to dance (Hora de bailar), 2010.
Ruti Sela´s artistic practice has a distinctly political agenda, addressing the context of the Israeli political sphere. The artist´s presentation at Manifesta 8 includes several videos which explore questions of boundaries, hyper-national claims, socio-political constructs and mechanisms that create the notion of "the Other". The installation juxtaposes videos that involve the documentary tradition with fictitious interventions, dealing with radical human behaviour, observing the boundaries of an individual¨s autonomy within the surrounding environment of forces and interests.
Artist, studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and at the Film Department of the Tel Aviv University. She teaches at the Haifa University and at the Avni Institute of Art and Design and will be the head of video art program at the Midrasha Art School. She has received a number of prizes and scholarships, among them the Anselm Kiefer prize. Her work has been shown internationally at various exhibitions and venues, including the Biennale of Sidney; Israel Museum; L.A Freewaves, Film Festival, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art in General, New York; Tel-Aviv Museum; Tate Modern;
6th Berlin Biennale and Istanbul Biennial
