“HOMESICK” by Yael Bartana
Neon retrospective
Curated by Dr. Noam Gal
as a part of FRAMED FEST
Yael Bartana’s exceptional art has been electrifying art publics around the world since the turn of the millennium. Her sweeping visual statements on alternative pasts and possible futures for our society unsettle wherever one feels at home. Now, for the first exhibition dedicated entirely to Bartana’s neon poetry, the Israeli artist is creating in Berlin a new sign that illuminates these dark and confusing distances we often experience towards our origins, and it is heartbreaking.
“You know how sometimes, while walking on the street and something really ordinary and flat suddenly catches your attention, like a word on the sign of a shop, and you don’t know why that word stayed with you when later you arrived home, but somehow you had that new thought you never had before and something new started for you…? this is more or less what Yael Bartana’s neon signs could do to you, it’s beyond their glow… you must come and see for yourself…“ Noam Gal
