Penny Hes Yassour – Temp EST

May 5, - July 14, 2019

Art exhibition of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2019

For the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Israeli artist Penny Hes Yassour creates narrative spaces related to theatre that question our perception of space and time. She tells stories and keeps history alive.
One of the three installations planned for Recklinghausen leads the viewer through the no-man's-land of the Jordan Valley, today the border between Israel and Jordan, a seemingly harmless natural idyll that is, however, rhythmised by a dense sequence of old watchtowers and robs the landscape of its supposed innocence - a demarcation between memory and forgetting.
The counterpart to this hard demarcation is the second work, which deals with the flight of bats in enclosed spaces and allows the viewer to experience this claustrophobic situation directly.

The third installation films the construction of a huge water basin on the border between Israel and Palestine. It follows the brute interventions in the landscape with poetic sensitivity and in the end shows a new landscape that is both fascinating and frightening.

Penny Hes Yassour lives and works in Kibbutz Ein Harod (Ihud) in the Galilee. She has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem since 2000. She won the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta X in Kassel in 1999, the Gottlieb Foundation Prize in New York in 2000 and the inaugural Prize for Excellency in the Arts in Israel in 2009. She has taught at the HafenCity University Hamburg - University of Architecture and Metropolitan Development and at Bard College Berlin. She designed the stage set for a new production of Shakespeare's ‘The Tempest’ at the Freiburg Theatre.

A ticket to Ruhrfestspiele performances on the same day entitles the holder to visit the exhibition free of charge.

Opening on Sunday, 5 May at 11 a.m. in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen