"Uncle Pini", Bezalel Graduate Exhibition, Jerusalem, July 2014
The first room of the exhibition showed a photograph of Pini, Halil Balabin’s uncle, who was imprisoned for 35 years for having committed a murder. He didn’t know then if and when he would be released. In the photograph Pini holds a rug he made in prison. The photo was accompanied by an audio recording in which Halil’s mother talks about the uncle: “He was a problematic, fucked up person since he was young. Such people should be executed or be excluded from society.” The room functions as a sub-conscious area, empty and frightening, whose only connections with the outside world is via a deliberately tiny window. This installation is an attempt to examine documentary art without using a video recording. A sound recording doesn’t compel the listener a visual world, and invites him to create such a world by himself.
The second room of the exhibition was a video screening of Ortal, an albino woman whose sight is impaired. Her head comes out of a green rug which serves as a “green screen” for visual effects.
merav kamel
מרב קמל
halil balabin
חליל בלבין
The first room of the exhibition showed a photograph of Pini, Halil Balabin’s uncle, who was imprisoned for 35 years for having committed a murder. He didn’t know then if and when he would be released. In the photograph Pini holds a rug he made in prison. The photo was accompanied by an audio recording in which Halil’s mother talks about the uncle: “He was a problematic, fucked up person since he was young. Such people should be executed or be excluded from society.” The room functions as a sub-conscious area, empty and frightening, whose only connections with the outside world is via a deliberately tiny window. This installation is an attempt to examine documentary art without using a video recording. A sound recording doesn’t compel the listener a visual world, and invites him to create such a world by himself.
The second room of the exhibition was a video screening of Ortal, an albino woman whose sight is impaired. Her head comes out of a green rug which serves as a “green screen” for visual effects.
merav kamel
מרב קמל
halil balabin
חליל בלבין
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חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
חליל בלבין מרב קמל
HALIL BALABIN MERAV KAMEL
