Braverman Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Tel Aviv based artist Nevet Yitzhak. Yitzhak, multi channel video & animation installations takes a critical approach to contemporary political and cultural issues. She challenges our perception of the past by raising questions about cultural heritage and collective forgetfulness within a complex local and global identity. Nevet Yitzhak is a video and sound artist, installation artist, and cultural researcher. Each of these practices brings forth a complex view of art, society and culture. One of the cornerstones of her work is the use of archival material, found footage and institutional collections which she disconnect from their original context while manipulating and placing into an ensemble of images and sounds which configure her works. The outcome reintroduces the historical moment with a critical approach to past social and cultural structures and traditions. This decomposition and reconstitution in her work leaves gaps for inquiry and thought, resulting in a layered conceptual creation.

Her recent solo exhibition, “Re-collection” (on view through January 2022), explores the cultural perception and values that shape the crystallization of museum collections and their role of agent of memory. The exhibition features two large scale video installations and new architectural elements that reassembles the original collection of Wilfrid museum and brings it to light. It conjures the exhibits up from the darkness and oblivion, frees them from the conventional museum categories while operates in the intermediate realm between real and fiction. YYitzhak constructs a new exegetic space, which combines historical and fictional elements and creates new narratives while considering the power and status of objects as reflecting a political and sociological ideology.
On view through January 29th, 2022 Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz HaZore’a, Israel.

Nevet Yitzhak (b. 1975, Israel) is a video artist, installation artist, and cultural researcher who lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her work has been shown at the 6th Asian Biennial, Taiwan; the 5th Mediation Biennale, Poznan, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; the Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; SMBA, Amsterdam; Kuandu Museum, Taipei; Modern Art Research Institute, Kiev; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem; Herzlyia Museum of Contemporary Art; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv; Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto; Circle 1, Berlin; Galeria Labirynt, Lublin; Edel Assanti Gallery, London; 68 Square Meters, Copenhagen; Bandjoun Station, Cameroon; Jeanine Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam; TSR, Miami; Nimac Art Center, Nicosia; KOU Gallery, Rome; SIP Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv; Huashan Culture Park, Taipei and CCA, Tel- Aviv

Yitzhak has been awarded the Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2022); the Artis Grant for Exceptional Work in Uncertain Times (2020); the Visual Art Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture & Sport (2017); the Landau Fund Prize for Arts and Sciences (2014); Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist (Israel Museum, 2014); Shmuel Givon Prize (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2012); Creative Encouragement Award (Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport, 2012); Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Grant (2008, 2010); First Prize, Experimental Film Competition, 21st International Film Festival, Jerusalem (2004); and was selected for Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Artist in Residence Program (2015- 2016) and ArtPort Artist in Residence Program (2013-2014).

Image: Nevet Yitzhak, “Song of Songs” (video still), 2018, single-channel video, projection on a linoleum, color, silent, duration 1 min loop, dimensions variable.