A (Void) Dance

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present A (Void) Dance, a solo exhibition by 2023 Open Call Skirt Space recipient, Renana Neuman. A (Void) Dance is an animation and sound installation using the architecture of the narrow and descending stairwell of the Skirt as a dwelling place of shadows, reflections, and projections. The animations arise from those moments of urgency, when the need for change is vital and can not be ignored. In contrast, the cyclical nature of the artworks shows a demand for ongoing action and persistence to sustain “change”. They dance within, against and despite the instinct to avoid disrupting the existing order. You want to be post But you can’t see past So you just pass the time Feasting on the contradictions Fasting in the spaces between untethered possibilities Occupying none Renana Neuman is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, organiser, and educator born in Israel. Her installations utilise video, animation, projections, and sculpture, interacting with architecture and objects, conjuring spectres of possible pasts and futures. Her works invoke the ghosts of our cultures and invite them to haunt us, to tell us their stories, to play. Her work received support through residencies and awards including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Artist Residency Grant; Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency; LABA: Laboratory for Jewish Culture; Ox-Bow Faculty Residency and Winter Intensive; and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has recently been shown at The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; 14th Street Y, NYC; Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn; Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel; The Immigrant Artist Biennial, NYC; and the RVK Feminist Film Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland among other venues. Renana received a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.