Body, Image, and Fragmentation: On Art in Times of Collapse
A conversation with Roee Rosen about the body as a political space, art in the shadow of violence, and the possibility of bearing an image when reality is unbearable.
Roee Rosen
Likeconomy Piece
Despite the nausea she felt at the thought of the war economy, Michal B. Ron writes from this perspective about the summer exhibitions in Berlin. The exhibitions by Yoko Ono and Lygia Clark offered opposite ways of participating in art, one of which is no different from marking a 'like.' So, can marking a like end a war? Or does the like actually feed off it?
The Problem of Nostalgia: Learning from Athens in documenta 14
A depressing human condition resolved with grand gestures of politics, sentimentality, fashion, and merchandise. Michal B. Ron writes about documenta 14 in Kassel.
Athens before Kassel
A message from Europe’s past that resonates in Europe’s present makes a powerful opening political statement of documenta 14. Christos Paridis visits the world-famous exhibition and finds the decision to open it this year in Athens before Kassel more than just a colonial project of the German art scene.
Bio-Bibliography
Can one bypass the fact that Roee Rosen, through his writing, manufactures his art as a closed system? Can one approach his art from different perspectives? Alma Mikulinsky writes about Rosen’s mid-career retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art