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Ofri Cnaani is an artist and educator working in time-based media, and large-scale installations. Today she lives in New York, where she teaches at the SVA School of Visual Arts. The artist's works are characterized by a constant investigation into the relationship between space and the body, the dominant and the dominated. Power dynamics are explored through in a range of social situations and architectural elements, compelling people towards a state of psychological tension. Such an ambiguous condition is perceptible through the video-works Both members of this club (2002) and Quartet (2005).

Both show social and psychological constructions through the use of individual and group movement in space, presenting situations that are at once playful and expressive of diffused or contained violence. Influenced by dreams, mental images and free visual associations, Cnaani's black ink drawings offer raw representations of the obscure and grotesque. Caught in the space between dark humor and desperation, the works are fragile and bittersweet, stripped to the bare minimum graphically, and dominated by strange, dark and somehow impertinent thoughts. Most recently, the artist's large scale architectural video installations expose the performative potential of cities and focus on the idea of 'knowing' space physically and visually. The installations use architectural elements and video projections to create unfamiliar experiences within familiar physical spaces and challenge the conventions of spatial consciousness.


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Ofri Cnaani is an artist and educator working in time-based media, and large-scale installations. Today she lives in New York, where she teaches at the SVA School of Visual Arts. The artist's works are characterized by a constant investigation into the relationship between space and the body, the dominant and the dominated. Power dynamics are explored through in a range of social situations and architectural elements, compelling people towards a state of psychological tension. Such an ambiguous condition is perceptible through the video-works Both members of this club (2002) and Quartet (2005).

Both show social and psychological constructions through the use of individual and group movement in space, presenting situations that are at once playful and expressive of diffused or contained violence. Influenced by dreams, mental images and free visual associations, Cnaani's black ink drawings offer raw representations of the obscure and grotesque. Caught in the space between dark humor and desperation, the works are fragile and bittersweet, stripped to the bare minimum graphically, and dominated by strange, dark and somehow impertinent thoughts. Most recently, the artist's large scale architectural video installations expose the performative potential of cities and focus on the idea of 'knowing' space physically and visually. The installations use architectural elements and video projections to create unfamiliar experiences within familiar physical spaces and challenge the conventions of spatial consciousness.

When was Ofri Cnaani born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1975