Yael Bartana: Three Works

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A young boy wearing a yarmulka watches from a doorway as carousing men dance in the street as part of the feast of Purim.

Video still, Yael Bartana, Ad de'lo Yoda (2003) Three Works, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2004, DVD, color/no sound, 3 minutes long, Courtesy of Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

Location
Bakalar Gallery
Featured Artists
Yael Bartana
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This solo exhibition by Israeli artist Yael Bartana includes 3 short works, When Adar Enters (2004), Kings of the Hill (2003), and Ad De’lo Yoda (2003).

Bartana often focuses on the activities and rituals of everyday life in Israel. She is particularly interested rituals that may be unfamiliar to an international audience, and in uncovering the underlying themes within them.

Images

A young boy wearing a yarmulka watches from a doorway as carousing men dance in the street as part of the feast of Purim.
Two off road vehicles are parked at the edge of a cliff overlooking an ocean, a person stands at the rear of one of them.
A woman and child sit on a sandy coastal hill outside of Tel Aviv, near an area where men drive trucks off road. 
A group of men converge atop coastal dirt hills and nearby their off roading trucks parked around, the ocean is visible behind.
A man attempts to scale a precipitous slope in an off roading truck, the whole front is angled upward against a coastal hill.
Fancy dressed adults on a street carry decorative trays of offerings wrapped in red and gold ribbon for the feast of Purim. 
Four merry girls dressed in white gowns, veils and tiaras stand with a woman accompanying them across a busy urban street.
A child dressed in a striped black and white costume and matching hat holding a toy cap pistol looks surprised at the camera. 
A group of men wearing silver marching band style outfits with shiny hats hang out of a van festooned with flags, signs, speakers.
A child waits to cross a street dressed in a royal queen costume with a gauzy dress, a foil crown and stuffed riding horse.

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