Turner prize nominee takes on Israel's Wall

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1348209,00.html
Paul Arendt
Thursday November 11, 2004
The Guardian

Turner prize-nominated artist Catherine Yass is tackling the Israeli/Palestinian conflict with her new film Wall. Yass has spent the past year filming sections of the wall that divides Jewish and Arab territories in Baqa, Qalqilya and Jerusalem. It is, she says, a physical symbol of the conflict - "a manifestation for all those jammed-up negotiations".

The resulting film focuses almost entirely on the wall itself; the buildings behind are only barely visible. It is "a re-enactment of what the wall does," says Yass. "The film itself is like a wall." The artist says first seeing the wall had an immediate physical effect. "You feel it in a very visceral way. It's a symbol for blockage."

Yass is best known for her technique of displaying experimentally processed photographs in lightboxes. Her 2002 Turner show included the film Descent, shot from a crane on a misty day in London's Canary Wharf. Wall and accompanying photographs are showing this month at London's Alison Jacques Gallery. Yass plans to show the film in Israel, and hopefully in Palestine.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/20years/yass.htm

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