Rotem  Ritov

  • Installations
    • First Redemption Branch
    • Ha-Sair NordArt 2022
    • The Oracle
    • Lost & Found 2022
    • Air.Cat 2021
    • Ha-Sair / 2019 Alfred Gallery
    • Monarch Migration#3 – Biotopia: Gaza / 2018 Fresh Paint 10
    • Monarch Migration #2 / 2017 MUZA Muzeum
    • Adalaad / 2017 London Gordon Gallery
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava Gallery
    • The Field 4# / NordArt 2016
    • The Field / 2015 Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field /2014 Digital Art Incubator
    • After The Butterflies / 2014 Alfred Gallery
    • The Wild East / 2012 Haifa Museum
    • Upupa Act / 2012 Alfred Gallery
    • The Field / 2013 Bezalel7 - ImageRoom
  • More Works
    • Self portrait with Thistles
    • The Field
    • Redemption
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Thoughts Books
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Installations
    • First Redemption Branch
    • Ha-Sair NordArt 2022
    • The Oracle
    • Lost & Found 2022
    • Air.Cat 2021
    • Ha-Sair / 2019 Alfred Gallery
    • Monarch Migration#3 – Biotopia: Gaza / 2018 Fresh Paint 10
    • Monarch Migration #2 / 2017 MUZA Muzeum
    • Adalaad / 2017 London Gordon Gallery
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava Gallery
    • The Field 4# / NordArt 2016
    • The Field / 2015 Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field /2014 Digital Art Incubator
    • After The Butterflies / 2014 Alfred Gallery
    • The Wild East / 2012 Haifa Museum
    • Upupa Act / 2012 Alfred Gallery
    • The Field / 2013 Bezalel7 - ImageRoom
  • More Works
    • Self portrait with Thistles
    • The Field
    • Redemption
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Thoughts Books
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
Monarch Migration #3:  Biotopia: Gaza
​Special project at "​Fresh Paint 2018"  Contemporary Art Fair, Tel Aviv
Curator: Gideon Smilansky
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​Photoes: Dafna Gazit
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“Vibrant butterflies and insects, shining with the glint of an oil slick, call me to hunt them, touch, take pleasure.
They emerge from the ground at death season.
Today, I am called to Gaza, tomorrow – somewhere else.
I am enchanted by the humming of the Ordnancea insects, which feed, hatch, and drown in the tracks left by the tank in the muddy puddle.”

Rotem Ritov / Ordnancea Huntress
 
Monarch Migration#3 – Biotopia: Gaza is a diorama/installation, a seductive and horrifying ensemble that symbolically emulates the “natural habitat” of 2007-2017 artillery. Shaped like the Gaza Strip, the installation alludes to a battlefield, beckoning us to ride the rollercoaster that takes us between displays of magical beauty and the discovery of a bloated corpse. Ordnancea butterflies/insects are placed in a frozen formation, as though captured through the camera lens in their natural activity in the field. This is a fantastical world that was “frozen in time”, a scene from the story of Palestinian-Israeli relations.
The ordnance in the installation are an inverted double spread of IDF weaponry used in operations in Gaza over the last decade.
2018 marks ten years of the Gaza blockade.

Laser paper cut, Lacquer, Pigments and Polyurethane
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