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Keren Cytter is known for numerous experimental film and video works that explore the influence of media culture on interpersonal relationships. In her works, the artist employs a non-linear, often cyclical logic to deconstruct classical narrative patterns, linguistic conventions, and meanings. Combining images sequences with asynchronous speech and sound, she creates idiosyncratic cinematic collages that conjure absurd, existentially urgent visual realities.
Keren Cytter’s films and videos are relatable in that they are produced with minimal effort, leave little unsaid, and occasionally zoom in explicitly on the storyline and its protagonists. This is rarely staged, in contrast to the highly orchestrated spoken text. Her montages of memories and imaginings form multi-layered, poetic compositions of a disturbingly grotesque character. Cytter’s intensified scenes employ narrative means to defamiliarize the overwhelming artificiality of the...More
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Keren Cytter is known for numerous experimental film and video works that explore the influence of media culture on interpersonal relationships. In her works, the artist employs a non-linear, often cyclical logic to deconstruct classical narrative patterns, linguistic conventions, and meanings. Combining images sequences with asynchronous speech and sound, she creates idiosyncratic cinematic collages that conjure absurd, existentially urgent visual realities.
Keren Cytter’s films and videos are relatable in that they are produced with minimal effort, leave little unsaid, and occasionally zoom in explicitly on the storyline and its protagonists. This is rarely staged, in contrast to the highly orchestrated spoken text. Her montages of memories and imaginings form multi-layered, poetic compositions of a disturbingly grotesque character. Cytter’s intensified scenes employ narrative means to defamiliarize the overwhelming artificiality of the...More
