Yael Bartana in conversation with Pascal Samuel (mahJ)
Interview accompanied by a screening of his film The Undertaker (2019, 13 min)
Israeli video artist Yael Bartana dissects the mechanisms of power and navigates between sociology and the imaginary. Her protean work (films, installations, photographs, and performances) focuses on subjects such as national identity and trauma, through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals, and collective gatherings. Her work has entered the collections of numerous museums, including MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.
Her film *The Undertaker* follows a procession and the burial of weapons, whose slow gestures are inspired by the choreography of Noa Eshkol. It is an invitation to consider our bodies as both bearers of trauma and vectors of hope and resistance.
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