Yael Kanarek "Notyetness"
Bitforms Gallery
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bitforms gallery presents Notyetness, a third solo exhibition by Yael Kanarek. With an art practice that centers on the marriage of language and space, Kanarek studies inner landscape and its intersection with the geopolitcal plane. Employing modes of authorship such as storytelling and multilingualism, Kanarek manipulates the biographical predisposition of cultural associations. Her work enters spaces of meaning determined by a global network and the negotiation of identity that occurs when confronted with multiple systems.
As an Israeli-American, Kanarek's perception is tempered with an awareness of post-national borderlines. Notyetness, the exhibition's title, is borrowed from an essay by curator Reem Fadda who uses the term to describe the Palestinian national project. A driving force of action and self-regeneration, notyetness proposes a constant lack and a state of temporal future arrangements in Palestinian/Isreali reality. A break in the period of digress, it is a zone where everything is possible. It is a patient moment that emerges in spatial metamorphoses and disfiguration.
[Image: Yael Kanarek "Not Yet, No. 1" (2010) wood, silicone, words in Hebrew and Arabic. 30x30 in.]
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Schedule
from September 07, 2010 to October 16, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-10 from 18:30 to 20:30