Son[i]a #202
Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Landau was born in Jerusalem in 1969 and studied in a bilingual and multicultural environment in the Israel, the UK and the US, but without ever losing sight of the Judea Desert and the Dead Sea. After several years spent studying dance and a period of military service, she began her artistic career, mainly focusing on sculpture.
Her first works were exhibited at the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Herzliya Museum in Tel Aviv, Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale, among others. Since the late nineties, Landau has reinterpreted her sculptural work through the use of the body in performances and videos. She works recursively with symbols, images and narratives as therapeutic forms of the wounds provoked by her historical, personal and cultural identity.
SON[I]A talks to Sigalit Landau about her work and about the methodology she uses to develop her personal vision of the world. She also discusses the inherent contradictions and connections between biography, territory and politics in her work, and analyses the role of art as the language that can account for this convergence.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Kristine Khouri that we were unable to include the first time around.
Kristine Khouri
Kristine Khouri talks about the traces of modernity in the Arab World, and about the changes that have been produced in, and in relation to, the postcolonial Arab narrative as a result of 9/11 and its global consequences. She also discusses the methodology that she uses to rewrite regional histories based on the analysis of documents and the production of knowledge.
Rasha Salti
Rasha Salti talks about the methodology of unearthing images that she uses in her research, and about some of its repercussions. Her postcolonial analysis of artistic production in modernism favours new narratives about the former East and West.
Fatima El-Tayeb
Fatima El-Tayeb talks about the need to reassess Europe’s internalist narrative and the discourse of integration. She evaluates the role of race in the construction of this account and argues for the creation and recovery of archives as a strategy for developing other types of narratives.