Can an image represent a belief system, which in itself denies belief? This paradox, coupled with manipulation of the masses by leaders and their rhetoric, data abuse, and corruption are the focus of Ben Shitrit’s research and practice.
Orit Ben Shitrit is a visual artist, photographer, choreographer and filmmaker. She creates elastic worlds in still and moving images. Ben Shitrit’s digital films incorporate movement and bodies to implicate the powers that be, their mechanisms of domination, and their effect—the potential for violence. Most recently, she’s been creating moving paintings made from detritus analogue film. In both digital and analogue, the subject simultaneously reflects and clashes with the national, in textured imagery.
GRADUATE LECTURE SERIES
Osher Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA
September 27, 2019, 4:30-6pm