New York Six Points Fellow Ofri Cnaani’s The Sota Project is coming to LA this Fall!

The Sota Project, which will be at the USC Fisher Museum of Art, is an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. The piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.

Sota, an anonymous Biblical story, recounts the tale of two sisters, Sota and Bekhorah, who are bound together in symbiotic loyalty when Sota’s husband accuses her of infidelity. Against a backdrop of jealousy, betrayal, judgment, ritual humiliation, and ultimately death, Cnaani’s installation depicts a deceptively simple moral parable that unfolds in countless ways.

Video projections on all four walls of the exhibition space will allow multiple narratives to develop concurrently, thus calling into question the notion of a single, coherent truth. The Sota Project uses the most current new media technologies while employing storytelling techniques inspired by ancient Greco-Roman murals and Renaissance tapestries.

More information about the Soto Project can be found here.

On Sunday, October 7, 2012 The USC Fisher Museum of Art, Artis and the Foundation for Jewish Culture invite you to attend The Sota Project: Women in ConTEXT a panel discussion from 2 – 3.30 PM and the Opening Reception immediately following from 3.30 – 4.30 PM. Galleries will open early at 1:00pm for a preview of The Sota Project.

The exhibition runs from Sunday, October 7, 2012 – Saturday, December 1, 2012.

PUBLIC NOTICE: AN EXHAUSTED FILM
Presenting a live-cinema performance by Ofri Cnaani, Cheryl Kaplan and Kathryn Alexander

Powered by a failing battery, PUBLIC NOTICE is an episodic tale that begins with a mock-trial. The work combines folly, tragedy and history as it travels peripatetically through urban and peripheral landscapes and international borders. This frame-by-frame account, created from an unstable visual system, examines loyalty to country and place. The cinematic event ends when the battery runs out of power. The film, presented by First Street Green and BMW Guggenheim Lab, is free. and open to the public.

Visit the BMW Guggenheim Lab website for more info.

The Sota project is an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Housed in an expansive, unique exhibition space of Rothschild-69, Ofri Cnaani’s ambitious piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that had hardly been told.

Galapagos Art Space presents
Three Acts of Betrayal
A New Performance-Lecture by
Ofri Cnaani + Hadas Cohen
Saturday April 2nd at 5:00 P.M.

“Terrorists’ whore”, “She is full with self-hatred”, “Such garbage should be executed!!!” – Mata Hari, La Melincha, Rosa Luxemburg and Tali Fahima – will be in the center of a new piece looking at women who used their bodies to perform national treason.

Cnaani and Cohen ask what happens when one stops being loyal to their country? What happens when the traitor is a woman – a traitress? How are traitors judged by the state and by the court of public opinion? What spectacle is formed through the punishment?

Three Acts of Betrayal is presented in conjunction with Six Points Ofri Cnaani’s exhibition, The Sota Project, on view at Kunsthalle Galapagos through April 23rd.  In Three Acts of Betrayal, artists combine live cinema various technologies of interrogation and entertainment to ask how and why we relate to political violence via technological mediation.

For further information please contact Ofri Cnaani at or Julie McKim at .

Kunsthalle Galapagos is located at 16 Main Street, second floor, DUMBO, Brooklyn. F train to Jay Street or C train to High Street. Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 12-6PM.

We’re excited to announce this Wednesday, February 16th, is the opening of Ofri Cnaani’s Sota Project – the culminating work of her time as a Six Points Fellow – an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. Housed in an expansive, historic horse-stable above Galapagos Art Space, Ofri Cnaani’s ambitious piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through an enigmatic and disturbing ancient story that has hardly been told.

Sota, an anonymous Biblical story, recounts the tale of two sisters, Sota and Bekhorah, who are bound together in symbiotic loyalty when Sota’s husband accuses her of infidelity. Against a backdrop of jealousy, betrayal, judgment, ritual humiliation, and ultimately death, Cnaani’s installation depicts a deceptively simple moral parable that unfolds in countless ways.

Video projections on all four walls of the exhibition space will allow multiple narratives to develop concurrently, thus calling into question the notion of a single, coherent truth. The Sota Project uses the most current new media technologies while employing storytelling techniques inspired by ancient Greco-Roman murals and Renaissance tapestries. After Kunsthalle Galapagos’ presentation, The Sota Project will travel to the Rothschild 69 in Tel Aviv.

A specially commissioned editioned sculpture, and a fully illustrated book published by Sternthal Books accompany the exhibition. Sold separately.

For further information please contact Elizabeth Grady at or Julie McKim at . Kunsthalle Galapagos is located at 16 Main Street, second floor, DUMBO, Brooklyn. F train to Jay Street or C train to High Street.

Opening Reception: February 16th, *8 – 10 pm* (Time Updated)
Showing until April 23rd
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 12-6PM.