“Gilad Ratman’s 588 Project at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia

September 7, 2011

Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters

Organized by prominent Israeli artist and curator Doron Rabina, this exhibition presents work by 20 artists from Israel, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Britain, and the United States that examines the relationships between originality and origin. Through video, photography, drawing, and sculpture, these works take the challenges of “originality”—invention, innovation, novelty—to extremes, while making the term “origin”—genesis, precedent, historical debt, pre-historic territory—a subject.