ART CITIES:Turin-Uriel Orlow

In his work, Uriel Orlow engages with the way the past emerges and lives on in the present and often repeats itself, questioning linear chronology. “Made / Unmade”, is the first exhibition of the artist in an Italian Museum. In the exhibition the artist brings different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence and prompts blind-spots and micro-narratives to reverberate in larger historical contexts.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Archive

The exhibition includes both new and key recent works, such as “Unmade Film”. Conceived as an expansive series of audio-visual installations that point to the structure of a film but never fully become one, “Unmade Film” takes on the form of an impossible film fragmented into its constituent parts, works on paper, photographs, video, a surround sound installation, a vinyl record and a 16mm film. The work takes as its starting point the at once emblematic yet wholly invisible Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Its inhabitants were massacred in 1948 by Zionist paramilitary forces before the psychiatric hospital of Kfar Sha’ul was set up in the remaining Palestinian homes to care for Holocaust survivors. Oscillating between the visible and the invisible, “Unmade Film” is an attempt to acknowledge the painful temporal and spatial intermingling of traumas which cannot be compared but tragically collide in a single place. The exhibition extends throughout the Castello di Rivoli, as a conceptual axis that runs through all the artist’s course and his important works.

 

Info: Made/Unmade, Curating: Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli, Torino, Duration: 26/6-11/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 10:00-17:00, Sat-Sun: 10:00-19:00, www.castellodirivoli.org