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Uri Zamir works across sculpture, installation, video, and performance. His atmospheric presentations blur the lines between reality and imagination—a method deeply influenced by his background in theater. In his work, he creates visual spaces that feel both familiar and unsettling, where meanings begin to shift and unravel.
A central theme in Zamir’s practice is the tension between the sacred and the grotesque. He deconstructs historically charged visual languages and reinterprets them into a deliberately naive yet universally accessible visual vocabulary—inviting viewers to approach authority with distance and to playfully question outdated ideals.
For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Zamir developed a new body of work combining furniture made of dark, heavy wood—cabinets, dressers, and clock cases—with finely crafted reliefs. These pieces of furniture do more than simply carry the images; they shape how the reliefs are perceived. Unlike traditional fr…
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Uri Zamir works across sculpture, installation, video, and performance. His atmospheric presentations blur the lines between reality and imagination—a method deeply influenced by his background in theater. In his work, he creates visual spaces that feel both familiar and unsettling, where meanings begin to shift and unravel.
A central theme in Zamir’s practice is the tension between the sacred and the grotesque. He deconstructs historically charged visual languages and reinterprets them into a deliberately naive yet universally accessible visual vocabulary—inviting viewers to approach authority with distance and to playfully question outdated ideals.
For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Zamir developed a new body of work combining furniture made of dark, heavy wood—cabinets, dressers, and clock cases—with finely crafted reliefs. These pieces of furniture do more than simply carry the images; they shape how the reliefs are perceived. Unlike traditional fr…
