Yana Rotner’s 2020 Exhibition ‘Sea of Silence’ is Featured in “Art. Bialik. — Contemporary Art in the Bialik Museum”.
Yana’s exhibition is featured in a new publication entitled “Art. Bialik. — Contemporary Art in the Bialik Museum”, a book and anthology of the contemporary art exhibitions held at the Bialik House in the last decade. The book includes photographs of the exhibitions accompanied by texts written by Dr. Smadar Sheffi who curated the works of over 30 artists in the Bialik Museum during a period of 10 years.
“Eight artworks constitute Yana Rotner’s series “Sea of Silence.” Each one is slightly larger than a postcard, a means of communication that has almost entirely disappeared over recent decades, now cloaked with an aura of nostalgia. The photographs, taken on a trip to Greece, represent a continuous process of external observation of the environment to the extent of almost merging with nature enveloped in night. The images are from frames isolated from a 16mm film. Unlike stills, in which the split second of each frame at the moment of taking the photograph is invisible to the naked eye, the images in Sea of Silence were selected through repeated, clear- eyed looking at the filmstrip and the frames before and after the chosen image. They embody an extremely precise moment, the slightest slice of time of being in a place and of being present at one’s existence.”
An excerpt from Dr. Smadar Sheffi’s text.
Editor: Dr. Smadar Sheffi
Designer: Magen Halutz
Language: English and Hebrew
Pages: 190
The book is available for purchase through the Bialik Museum, Bialik 22 St’, Tel Aviv.
