Kept Alive is a three-channel video and photo installation focused on
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Filming on location for a full year, artist Nira Pereg investigates intersections between the living and the dead. The cemetery is one of
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Photographs of reserved graves
A selection of photographs documents numerous markers placed on the empty, reserved graves, presented as portraits of their purchaser. Each stands for a living individual offering the means to occupy territory in the land of the dead.
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The buzz of activity at Mountain of Rest
Kept Alive (a literal translation from Hebrew) refers to the text engraved upon headstones to reserve pre-purchased burial spots. The custom arose from bureaucratic necessity, but grew to function as a popular charm to ensure a healthy and long life for the purchaser.
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Artist Nira Pereg
Kept Alive is being shown at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica through February 27, 2010. For More information, contact:
Shoshana Wayne, 2525
To read the LA Times article on the show, visit http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/art-review-nira-pereg-at-shoshana-wayne.
Or visit the Artist's website at: http://www.nirapereg.net/Home_page.html
1 comment:
Fascinating... Liked the Times review, as well.
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