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Artist Statement
I work in time-based media, live-cinema performances and large-scale installations. I often use specific technologies (from out-of-usage and defunct technologies to open source video) to present my research that are lately related to political and sexual betrayal.
http://ofricnaani.com/
I’m interested in forms of spatial narratives and reenactment of classic texts within a physical space, hoping to activate my audience and welcome their own readings by walking the space, experiencing the text and interpreting it.
My recent video installation, The Sota Project, is a reenactment and an interrogation of a Talmudic tale of adultery, betrayal and doubt. The piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.
My current research, Betrayal in Three Acts, tells the story of women who have used their bodies to perform treason. Presented as a series of lectures, performances, and as audiovisual archive, this project uses the border between education, entertainment and political rhetoric, altering the audience’s position from that of onlooker to willing participant.
I work in time-based media, live-cinema performances and large-scale installations. I often use specific technologies (from out-of-usage and defunct technologies to open source video) to present my research that are lately related to political and sexual betrayal.
http://ofricnaani.com/
I’m interested in forms of spatial narratives and reenactment of classic texts within a physical space, hoping to activate my audience and welcome their own readings by walking the space, experiencing the text and interpreting it.
My recent video installation, The Sota Project, is a reenactment and an interrogation of a Talmudic tale of adultery, betrayal and doubt. The piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.
My current research, Betrayal in Three Acts, tells the story of women who have used their bodies to perform treason. Presented as a series of lectures, performances, and as audiovisual archive, this project uses the border between education, entertainment and political rhetoric, altering the audience’s position from that of onlooker to willing participant.
CV
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OFRI CNAANI
Born in Israel, 1975. Lives and works in New York.
Education
2002-2004 MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York
1997-2000 BFA, Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2011
The Sota Project, Rothschild 96, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Sota Project, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Three Acts of Betrayal, lecture- performance by Ofri Cnaani and Hadas Cohen, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NYC.
2010
The Vanishing Woman, Live-cinema performance at PS1/ ,NYC
Manja, The Bialik House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009
Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums (10 sites in 10 different museums), Italy.
Ofri Cnaani, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy.
Tale of Ends, Le Poisson Rouge, New York.
2007
Two Dimensional Days, project at Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York.
Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2006
Death Bed, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2005
The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan
2004
WE, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York.
The Sun Still Shines, Pack Galleria, Milan.
2003
The Black & White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem
Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
2002
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv.
2000
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Group Exhibition
2010
Handhald Histories, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
Corsiedpondense, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem
Longitude &Latitude, Tivon Art Gallery, Israel
Finzioni-videoracconti contemporanei, Museo internazionale delle marionette
Antonio Pasqualinodi, Palermo, Italy.
Looking In, Looking Out,, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Rupture and Repair, The Adi Foundation and The Israel Museum, Artists’ House, Jerusalem.
Metamorphoses: Error, Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Halpern and Vlatka Horvat, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Ecstasy, The former convent of St. Cecilia’s P 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY
2009
FORUM DES IMAGES, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Paris
The Situation, Moscow Biennial (special project),
Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Fresh Fruits, Ten Haaf Project, Amsterdam.
2008
Video Zone, The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel.
A Re-reading of the future, ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague (curator: Danna Taggar)
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, Israel museum, Jerusalem
Mexico NewYork Paris, Estación Indianilla Centro cultural, Mexico City.
2007
Playing with Solitude, Ursula Blickle Videolounge at the Kunsthalle Wein, Viena
Port-City, Arnolfini foundation Museum, Bristol, UK.
Storytellers, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci, Italy.
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel
Bat Yam Museum, Israel
Art and Urban Practices- New City-Territories. Venice, Italy
2006
Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Floating Symmetry, Going Public ’06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus.
I Cant quite Place It, smack Mellon, Brooklyn , NYC
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2005
AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
ARCO 05, Madrid, Spain
2004
Going Public 04: maps, confines, new geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy Visionaries, Makor Art Center, New York.
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2003
Artik 5, American – Israeli “Sharet” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan.
2002
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2001
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art – “Midrasha”
Artik 3, American – Israeli “Sharett” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-Aviv
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards and fellowship
2007
HBI Research Award, Hadassah- Brandies institute, MA.
Six Point Fellowship, NYC
2005
AIM – Artist In the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx museum
2003-2004
American Israeli Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship.
2000- 2001
American Israeli Cultural Foundation
Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence
CV
OFRI CNAANI
Born in Israel, 1975. Lives and works in New York.
Education
2002-2004 MFA, Hunter College Art School, New York
1997-2000 BFA, Beit-Berel College – School of Art, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2011
The Sota Project, Rothschild 96, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Sota Project, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Three Acts of Betrayal, lecture- performance by Ofri Cnaani and Hadas Cohen, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NYC.
2010
The Vanishing Woman, Live-cinema performance at PS1/ ,NYC
Manja, The Bialik House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009
Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums (10 sites in 10 different museums), Italy.
Ofri Cnaani, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy.
Tale of Ends, Le Poisson Rouge, New York.
2007
Two Dimensional Days, project at Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York.
Decreation, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2006
Death Bed, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2005
The Blind Scenario, Pack Gallery, Milan
2004
WE, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York.
The Sun Still Shines, Pack Galleria, Milan.
2003
The Black & White Theater, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Art Focus 4, Jerusalem
Patrol, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
2002
Ofri Cnaani – Dror Daum, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv.
2000
Waiting Room, Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Group Exhibition
2010
Handhald Histories, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
Corsiedpondense, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem
Longitude &Latitude, Tivon Art Gallery, Israel
Finzioni-videoracconti contemporanei, Museo internazionale delle marionette
Antonio Pasqualinodi, Palermo, Italy.
Looking In, Looking Out,, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Rupture and Repair, The Adi Foundation and The Israel Museum, Artists’ House, Jerusalem.
Metamorphoses: Error, Ofri Cnaani, Tamar Halpern and Vlatka Horvat, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Ecstasy, The former convent of St. Cecilia’s P 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY
2009
FORUM DES IMAGES, Nuit Blanche in Paris, Paris
The Situation, Moscow Biennial (special project),
Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Fresh Fruits, Ten Haaf Project, Amsterdam.
2008
Video Zone, The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel.
A Re-reading of the future, ITCA 2008 – International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery in Prague (curator: Danna Taggar)
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, Israel museum, Jerusalem
Mexico NewYork Paris, Estación Indianilla Centro cultural, Mexico City.
2007
Playing with Solitude, Ursula Blickle Videolounge at the Kunsthalle Wein, Viena
Port-City, Arnolfini foundation Museum, Bristol, UK.
Storytellers, Castello Dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci, Italy.
The Space Between, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel
Bat Yam Museum, Israel
Art and Urban Practices- New City-Territories. Venice, Italy
2006
Disengagement, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Floating Symmetry, Going Public ’06- Atlante Mediterraneo, Nicosia, Cyprus.
I Cant quite Place It, smack Mellon, Brooklyn , NYC
LOOP, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2005
AIM 25, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
ARCO 05, Madrid, Spain
2004
Going Public 04: maps, confines, new geographies, aMAZE cultural lab, Modena, Italy Visionaries, Makor Art Center, New York.
Video:1Min:1800 Frames, City without Walls, Newark, NJ.
2003
Artik 5, American – Israeli “Sharet” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, Ramat-Gan Museum, Ramat-Gan.
2002
The Kiss, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2001
Action Express, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Graduate Exhibition, Beit Berel-College-School of Art – “Midrasha”
Artik 3, American – Israeli “Sharett” Cultural Foundation Winners Exhibition, University Gallery, Tel-Aviv
VideoTrip, Video Art Nightly Project, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Awards and fellowship
2007
HBI Research Award, Hadassah- Brandies institute, MA.
Six Point Fellowship, NYC
2005
AIM – Artist In the Marketplace fellowship program at the Bronx museum
2003-2004
American Israeli Cultural Foundation Overseas graduate scholarship.
2000- 2001
American Israeli Cultural Foundation
Beit Berel Certificates of Honor for artistic excellence
The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
stills from The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
stills from The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
stills from The Sota Project, Video Instillation,2011
Betrayal in Three Acts, lecture performance, 2011
Double Agent Slide Projector, installation and performance, in progress
Betrayal in Three Acts, lecture performance, 2011
War Map, digital print, 2011
Movie Maker (color Blindness), Installation, 2009
Untitled, digital print, 2010
The Vanishing Woman, Live-Cinema performance, 2010
Turn Table and The Vanishing Woman, Live-Cinema performance at PS1 /MoMA, 2010
Movie Maker (The Eye), Installation, 2009
Untitled (Manja), Slide show and digital print, 2010
Untitled (Manja), Slide show and digital print, 2010
Untitled (Manja), Slide show and digital print, 2010