kunsthalle
wilhelmshaven
10.10.2020 – 09.05.2021

Yehudit Sasportas

Archäologie des Unsichtbaren

The Owls no. 1
Chapter no. 5
Liquid Desert Project
, 2019
59 x 83 cm
archival pigment print

Sculptural process / Recording Time
Clay pots, ink drawings, indoor installation – the Owls cell, long exposure photography

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Yehudit Sasportas' works are both landscapes and visualizations of the subconscious. In drawings, sculpture, architecture, sound and film, she merges the complex structures of virtual and real nature - such as forest clearings and swamps - into large-scale mental landscapes. For many years, Yehudit Sasportas has returned time and again to the residual Dreesberg moor, southwest of Oldenburg, to experience the peculiar and quiet landscape of the nature reserve. Yehudit Sasportas is one of the most significant Israeli artists of the present. In 2007 she represented Israel at the 52nd Venice Biennale. She is Professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Hashavat Avedea no. 1
Chapter no. 6
Liquid Desert Project
, 2019
115 x 86,25 cm
Archival pigment print

Sculptural process / Recording Time
Clay pots, ink drawings, outdoor installation, long exposure photography

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Works

Raw Material no. 1
Core Element
Liquid Desert Project
, 2015
200 x 150 cm
Ink on MDF, with engraving and Mixed Technique. Vertical Diptych.
Photo: Uwe Walter
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Room no. 3/49
Chapter no. 1
Liquid Desert Project
, 2019
59 x 83 cm
Graphite drawing on archival pigment print

Sculptural process / Recording Time
The sound frequencies were manually drawn on top of the Silhouette prints. The Silhouette prints reflect and represent the indigestible subconscious life information that is conceptually stored in the 49 architectural spaces of the Liquid Desert site. The sound frequencies that were drawn, relate to the original sound recordings of specific trees from the Southern Black forest in Freiburg, Germany.

Photo: Elad Sarig
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Kelim 2A
Chapter no. 2
Liquid Desert Project
, 2019
75 x 115 cm
archival pigment print

Sculptural process / Recording time
Clay pots, ink drawings, indoor installation – the artist studio window, long exposure photography

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Vertical Swamps no. 6
Core Element
Liquid Desert Project
, 2015
300 x 200 cm
Ink on MDF, with engraving and Mixed Technique. Vertical Diptych.
Photo: Uwe Walter
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Rifts of Absence no. 3
Core Element
Liquid Desert Project
, 2010
70 x 100 cm
ink on paper
Photo: Uwe Walter
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART

Installation views

Fotos: Lars Wohlnick

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