116:) diapering her son in a nursing room as a life-size model in the midst of the desert. As the camera retreats, we see that what we thought was a house is in fact only a stage set in the middle of a desert landscape. The film takes place in the desert and may be characterized with reference to several genres: documentation of action, a family film, a video clip or an excerpt from a full-length feature film. The camera stays where it is, night falls gradually and unevenly, and the nightlight that formed part of the stage scenery is not the desert’s only source of illumination—a lonely domestic light glowing in a vast open space. The camera moves skywards and the bright stars change into the dazzling globes we saw earlier, before being transformed into the balls of the mobile the baby was playing with at the beginning of the movie, which now starts all over again—and so the cycle continues. In the background the 1980s pop song "Just Be Good to Me" is playing. Helfman immerses the viewer in the complex relationships between man and environment, space and action.
84:(2003), or “Kochav Yair” in Hebrew. In the middle of the room stands a metallic owl surrounded with mirrors in the form of dripping water. The mutual reflection creates a kaleidoscope effect. Above the owl there is a lighting fixture designed to look like an owl’s eye. For few minutes it will radiant with a strong, bright light that will almost blinds whoever enters the room, and then, for few minute the strong light will shut down and the owl will tell stories of wisdom. Michal Helfman juxtaposes an owl, the mysterious nocturnal bird that is an ancient Greek symbol of wisdom, with the glamorous nightclub world. Helfman’s owl, which she has fashioned in the style of the twentieth-century Israeli
38:, Israel. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in various disciplines including sculpture, architecture, video and drawings. In order to demonstrate the relations between the reviled and the hidden forces working within society and culture, she has developed an installation platform based on the back-stage front-stage structure of the theatrical stage as one, which brings together simultaneously both the real and the symbolic.
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The moment in which the mother and son disappear into the desert night, illustrates this mutual request. The artist transforms an image into an icon, in a symbol of dualism that exists between nature and culture, appearance and reality, single and collective. Between illusion, fiction and reality, Helfman immerses the viewer in the complex relationships between man and environment, space and action.
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a darkened room showing a documentary video about laughing gas; and along the wall in the room on the left are faces, seemingly those of dances who have stopped for a moment to have a souvenir picture taken. The third room with plastic bags folded and glued into
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in Tel Aviv. The show was named for a Dutch DJ well known in the international club scene. The gallery space is divided into three separate rooms, each of which relates to a different section of a dance club. The middle room, which visitors enter first, is done up as a sort of lounge, to the right is
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The film takes place in the desert and may be characterized with reference to several genres: documentation of action, a family film, a video clip or an excerpt from a full-length feature film. The refrain "Just be good to me" becomes this primal cry of a human being who depends on a relationship.
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in 2007, Helfman employed multiple disciplines and media, such as architecture, interior design, sculpture and drawing. The opening scene of the film, which was screened in the first room of the exhibition, shows
Helfman herself dressed as a dancer (a variation of
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96:, 1939) In the background Roy “Chicky” Arad reads his poem “The Owl,” a work that underscores the tension between the magnificent traditions of the ancient world and the false glitter of today’s consumer society.
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