Miri Mor | Under the Skin

Under the Skin, Miri Mor’s solo exhibition at Indie Gallery, includes a number of

photographic works and a video work that were taken over the past two years.

Romania, the location of Mor’s works, is a space in which past and present, tradition

and capitalism, exist side by side. In her works Mor challenges familiar cultural

contexts and confronts the eternal landscapes of Romania, its rural dwellers, which

seem to have been taken from touristy picture postcards with the sights of abandoned

factories and nameless workers.

In these works Mor continues her engagement with examining ways of representing

the shaping of collective memory. By adopting visual research strategies stripped of

nostalgia Mor poses questions on human existence while engaging with the time

dimension. The experience of death and negating the past are the leitmotif, of the

works, either metaphorically or concretely, either in the image of a carcass or by

presentation of objects from a period long past.

---------