Artis

Keren Cytter creates films, video installations, and drawings that represent social realities through experimental modes of storytelling.  Characterised by a non-linear, cyclical logic, Cytter's films consist of multiple layers of images- conversation, monologue, and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, these montages of impressions, memories, and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition.  The artist creates intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production.

In 2006 Cytter was awarded the prestigious Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel foe The Victim, a film composed as an infinite loop in which five unnamed protagonists meet over a dinner that culminates in a suicide that repeatedly takes us back to the beginning of the scene.  The effect of Cytter's distinctly analytical approach to filmmaking is the creation of narratives choreographed to expand our understanding of the way in which the strategies and cliches of the media permeate our social reality.

Keren Cytter was born in 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel.  recent solo exhibitions of Cytter's work include Centro Huarte de Arte Conteporaneo, Huarte (2008), Luttgenmeijer, Berlin (2008), Stuk Kunstcentru, Leuven (2007), MUMOK, Vienna (2007), Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2007), and Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York (2007).  Recent group exhibitions include The Generationsl: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009), Television Delivers People, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008), Manifesta 7, Trentino (2008), and Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama (2008).

Keren Cytter lives and works in Berlin. She is represented by Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London. Her videos can be viewed on the Pilar Corrias website.