Book conceived by the artist, based on the installation she developed for the Israeli Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
This book was conceived by Sigalit Landau;
it assembles the principle stages in her work
and presents the installation titled One man's
floor is another man's feelings that she has
developed for the Israeli Pavilion at the 54th
Venice Biennale. This title, pointing to the
interdependence of our destinies and the
feelings uniting us to each other, corresponds
to a constant concern in her approach. It is
largely reviewed here, as a founding principle
of her Venetian exhibition and of other
important projects which follow from it.
In her work, Sigalit Landau (born 1969 in Jerusalem, Sigalit Landau lives and works in Tel Aviv) answers poetically
the warnings of the time. Her engaged moves
turn individual, philosophical or political
questions into universal ones. To achieve
that, she often combines performances,
installations, objects and videos. Her works
have the capacity to crystallize into one
image, or one object, as shown, for example,
by the immense notoriety of her video
Barbed Hula, with her realizations becoming
the symbol of collective challenges. The
necessity of this move explains the prominent
place she now occupies in the realm of the
community of artists who are indispensable
for the reinvention of the world.
