Marks of Existence

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Marks of Existence

MARKS OF EXISTENCE | Sharon Paz and Jürgen Salzmann

 

The exhibition “Marks of Existence” is the fruit of cooperation between Sharon Paz (Israel/Germany) and Jürgen Salzmann (Germany).

In this video installation, the artists create fantastic environments made up of layers whose origins are far apart from each other but who integrate into a whole illusionary environment. The building, which is a former leper’s hospital, together with its historical furniture, are present as an additional layer in the visual reality which the exhibition portrays. The use of shadows, silhouettes and cut-outs corresponds with European traditional shadow- puppetry and with experimental cinema as well as expands them, while causing the viewers to take part in the creation of the shadow theatre. 

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The exhibition held as part of the Mamuta prize of the experimental cinema and video art competition 2014, and supported by Mamuta art and media center, Hansen House, Manofim, the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Goethe-Institut as part of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Germany – Israel.

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The Mamuta Project is a center for artistic creation, encounters, research, and display of art. The Center, is an artist’s run space, developed and directed by the Sala-Manca Group. Mamuta is comprised of artists’ workspaces; video, sound, and electronics labs; a wood, metal, and plastics workshop. The goal of the project is to advance art projects and to create a framework for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation.

Mamuta offers guidance and support for the development of its artists’ individual projects, and initiates and produces projects at the Center as well as at other sites in and outside of Jerusalem—in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Israel and abroad. The project is dedicated to creating conditions for developing an active community of artists, allowing for personal development alongside collaborative work, through an engagement with the place and time.

A project by Sala-Manca Group (through Hearat Shulaym Foundation)

With the generous support of:

Ostrovsky Family Fund, Leichtag Foundation

From 2009 to August 2012 Mamuta project operated at El-Dan House, thanks to the kind support of Daniela Passal z”l, as a joint project by Hearat Shulaym and the Jerusalem Foundation. Since November 2013 Mamuta Center it operates at Hansen House.