Participating Artists
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Huliot, 2004 (detail), perforated PVC pipe, diameter: 15 cm; height: 323 cm, courtesy of the artist
Gal Weinstein
This work is named Huliot after a company that produces plumbing equipment. It is related to a later work, in which Weinstein included an image of his fingerprint on a sewage cover, as well as to a series of steel wool works concerned with ornamental architecture. The process of perforating the plastic with decorative motifs that undermine its functional role, and the transformation brought about by the manual treatment of this industrial material, are related to Weinstein's continuous preoccupation with the transmutation and sublimation of lowly, everyday substances and with disrupting the material essence of crude industrial materials.
Born in Ramat Gan, 1970; lives and works in Tel Aviv
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