YAEL PERI
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  • projects
    • ein Zirkel / A Pair of Compasses
    • Letters To A Grandfather Whom I Never Met
    • Split/Complete
    • Under Destructuin #1
    • Under Destructuin #2
    • Forgetabilia / ha'miffal
    • Forgetabilia / temple mount
    • the happiest of all arabs
    • The Land Lords
    • Bleached White City
    • Exile
  • Videos
  • Photography
    • Pößneck | 2018 [DE]
    • Erfurt | 2017 [DE]
    • Jaffa | 2013 [IL]
    • USA, 2009
    • Miscellaneous
  • 2d
  • Community &Education
    • Qattan's Salon
    • The Voyage to Tahiti
    • Flesh & Stones Workshop
Under Destruction | 2014
3-chanel Video-art & projection on a ruind city model
Model | Plaster castings
​Measures | 150X200 cm
​Music | Murcof-Memoria
We are surrounded by apocalyptic sights: a city bombed to destruction, storm -stricken coasts, a collapsed building. These are final moments of population, and culture.
Modernist approach to restoring disaster zones epouses an erasure of debris, placing modern structures instes, as if it were a blank slate. This new space is comprised of anonymous buildings, cloned-like units in an artificial arrangment.
This utopian approach ignores the fact that every place has its own unique topography, its own surface containing its past: layers upon layers of civilizations and their ruins.
In contrast with the immediate urge to erase the destruction and start- anew, my submission proposes to look upon the ruins of modernist construction as a possibillity to create a new space, founded on the poetic aesthetics of ruins; to find a new narrative in the scattered fragments.
I wish to see wether the disaster zone can provide an aesthetic logic wich may itself form a new order, thus enabling a new organic, authentic layer to sprout. This layer is one that holds the memory of the past, thus enfolding a potential for a new spatial reality- varied and multi-layered.
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  • About
  • projects
    • ein Zirkel / A Pair of Compasses
    • Letters To A Grandfather Whom I Never Met
    • Split/Complete
    • Under Destructuin #1
    • Under Destructuin #2
    • Forgetabilia / ha'miffal
    • Forgetabilia / temple mount
    • the happiest of all arabs
    • The Land Lords
    • Bleached White City
    • Exile
  • Videos
  • Photography
    • Pößneck | 2018 [DE]
    • Erfurt | 2017 [DE]
    • Jaffa | 2013 [IL]
    • USA, 2009
    • Miscellaneous
  • 2d
  • Community &Education
    • Qattan's Salon
    • The Voyage to Tahiti
    • Flesh & Stones Workshop