Star of the Well

Second exhibition in the 16th Nidbach series

In her video art, Orlee Hadari recruits a clown figure to a journey through various suspended artworks. Hadari’s clown is a street clown, a loser, exposed to the eyes of the passers by inceasant repeated actions in which he experiences failure time after time. Her choice of the clown comes from investigating borderline human conditions, in which there is physical and mental exersion. The clown appears in artworks works from different periods of time: Francisco Goya’s “Idiot”, “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico, “Still Life with a Harness” by Johannes Torrentius and a photograph from the series “Foam” by the contemporary Chinese artist Zang Huan, for example. In her works Orlee Hadari takes the viewer back to the initial and ancient language of the human race, to the intense body and facial expressions that are near cultural extinction due to the formation of language. Hadari reveals and discovers day to day facial expressions and body gestures and translates them into a different, far away language that seems to emerge from the depths of the collective conscious.

Chen Sheinberg