Gilad Ratman

Gilad Ratman’s videos and installations aim to deal with untenable aspects of human behavior by exploring the appearance of pain, struggle and the wild. Pushing narrative to it borders and allowing for a fractured chain of events to take place, functions as a vehicle for the artist to explore the friction between the real and the imaginary. Violating the correlation between cause and effect, his videos undermine trust in the cinematic apparatus, and opening a space for the poetic and the pathetic to coexist. “I see my work as a political attempt to subvert the cultural mechanisms that generate meaning and the language by which we engage reality and to position myself as an opposing force to the obsessions with “nowness” that is expounded by the media and the dialectic binary approach endorsed by it,” he explains.

Ratman has had solo exhibitions at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station in Karlsruhe and The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, among other venues. His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at institutions such as PS 1 in New York, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Museum Beelden Aan Zee in Haag, Herzliya Museum of Art, and the Video Art Festival in Beijing. In 2009 Ratman became the youngest artist ever chosen to represent Israel at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

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