Events

The Hilarious Roee Rosen @ Galerija Nova, Zagreb

14. December 2017, 20:00

Screening and Booklaunch

 “The body is always the first to tell you if something is wrong; the somatic transgression usually comes first and tells you that a border has been crossed. It does not happen often, but sometimes an idea will give me this sweaty, uncomfortable feeling, and then I know that it merits my attention.” — Roee Rosen     

Painter, novelist, and filmmaker Roee Rosen is an astute critical voice in Israel. While his work deals primarily with the representation of desire and structural violence, Rosen has created an artistic universe that treacherously undermines the normative implications of identities and identifications through fictionalization, irony, and revision. In untold variations, he typically links current Israeli and world politics with mythical and political references to European and Jewish history. Using a vast array of fictional characters and iconographic motifs and codes, Rosen frequently refers to, and transforms, not only the canon of the historical avant-garde and transgressive traditions from the Marquis de Sade to Georges Bataille, but also popular media, political propaganda, and classic children’s fairy tales. – documenta 14 

This program of four films curated by Marcel Schwierin gives an overview on the filmic oeuvre of Roee Rosen, beginning with the mockumentary TwoWomen and a Man, in which Rosen is talking about his major cycle Justine Frank as well as himself and his artistic strategies up to his most recent film, The Dust Channel, premiered at documenta 14.

Schwierin will also present Rosen's new book Live and Dieas Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories which was made on the occasion of Roee Rosen's first solo-show in Germany at Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art.