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From: arts art art reviews
Category: Art
Date: 24 January 2006
http://www.victoria-miro.com/nowshowing/
A good installation in the beautiful upstairs gallery of VM. You walk down a dimly lit corridor and are puzzled about where the video is. Then your eyes adjust, or the noise draws you into a big room with two huge screens on either side of you. A helicopter or boats buzzes around you, and a guttural voice barks orders (Thai I thought, actually Hebrew) with the words translated into english white letters on black showing on one screen, the other is not alive. The context of the command is revealed when we the other screen illuminates and we see, soundless, a crowd of women and children corralled in a bathing area in the sea.
It is shocking, peculiar too, the horror of this leisure activity, factory farming not swimming, and seems to express the truth of our extraordianry and destroyed world, terence malick on holiday if you like. That it turns out to be Tel Aviv deosn't add much for me, but suppose it could. All these women and children bobbing and playing and floating on rubber rings, is shown with the brutality normally we associate with seeing tragedy.
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