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Art TLV, the International art biennial running from September 10–24, 2009 with professional previews on September 9, is the main art event of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s centennial celebrations, featuring leading contemporary Israeli and International artists creating exhibitions, installations, performances, screenings and talks throughout the city.

Miri Segal was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1965 and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. She received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (2006), Lisson Gallery, London (2004), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2002), P.S.1. Center of Contemporary Art, New York (2001), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998).

Armed with a playful wit and a Ph.D in advanced mathematics, Miri Segal combines a lyrical epistemological interest in the nature of illusion and projection - both optical and psychological. With rigorous ideas inspired by tangential disciplines, she reveals the contradictions and paradoxes of perception. Using seductive visual models and various forms of behavioral game-playing, she disrupts any stable sensory suppositions about the relationship between observer and observed, making one keenly attentive to one's simultaneously participatory and voyeuristic position with her work.