Performance, 1 hour
Double channel video, 1 hour
THE SUNDAY pertains to unpremeditated cultural assimilation and the integration of religiously-based customs into secular multicultural life.
Elana Katz, a secular Jew, crosses herself for 1 hour. The action transforms in its repetition, developing an inconsistent rhythm. Powder is used on the hand that commits the gesture, creating a visual map of the repetitive whereabouts of her hand.
The gesture is one that the artist has learned and habitually adopted from sources unknown. It is a result of social conditioning that cannot be localized, a sign that has been appropriated in an unconscious manner – an instance of unpremeditated cultural assimilation.
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Curated by Leah Oats
Video: Branka Pavlovic
Photography: Motohiro Takeda