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Second Chance, 2011

Accelerator – Uri Nir

Second Chance, 2011

Uri Nir (b. 1976) studied art in Bezalel (BFA) and UCLA (MFA). Held a solo  exhibition at the Herzliya Museum (2004) and exhibited in group exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, Martin-Gropius-Bau, and others.

The exhibition is a machine, a kinetic composition of bodies in space and timed movements. The viewer is invited to stroll within a map of powers that distribute materials in space and time, inhabit the museum building and pierce it. Like a musical piece, the exhibition seeks to be perceived in its abstract reality and offers an option to move from the familiar, overused reciprocal relations between viewer and artwork, onto introspective relations of space and time with themselves. The exhibition includes doors that produce flickering storms; a video film taken between the doors, with only traces of its occurrences left in the space; public phone booths emitting sounds from another video film: a collaboration between junkies and huge spinning eggs.

Video – exhibition walkthrough, Accelerator, 2011

Video – exhibition walkthrough, Accelerator, 2011

Video: Ofer Bar
© Uri Nir

Courtesy of Braverman Galley

Other exhibitions

Muhammad Abo Salme: Cascade
Theatre of Animals
Green Through and Through
Netta Lieber Sheffer: Shattered Hopes and Roads not taken