8 February 2006

"...The sewer is the museum of the depths. On display in its chambers, as in any museum, are the representations of lavishness, remains and leftovers of productive entities. It is a giant receptacle containing only things that have already been digested. And of all the museums that function according to an economy of exhibiting energetic leftovers, sewage is the most terrible receptacle of them all, that which contains the perfect and most literal concentration of human vomiting."

[Karen Russo, from the entry: 'Sewage System/The Forbidden Museum', Encyclopedia Thermica, 2004, published by OMANUT LA'AM [Hebrew], p.48].

Dvir Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of a new solo show by Karen Russo. The exhibition will explore to local audience Karen Russo's latest video, "ECONOMY OF EXCESS", for the first time. The video, shot in 2005, is a 9 minutes long audio-visual odyssey in the tunnels of the sewage system of Essex, UK. The debut screening of the video took place in October 2005, in the framework of Russo's solo show at VTO Gallery, London.

Other works on display at Dvir: Russo's most recent ink-on-paper large drawings and her film "BATTLES UNDER THE SEA OF ICE" [2004]. The latter focuses on the speech and language disorder of Aphasia through the juxtaposition of the story of Rotem, an Israeli soldier who was injured in his head during his military service and that of Yura, the protagonist of Gregory Grebinev's novel "Arctania-Flying Station".

Since nearly two years Karen Russo [b.1974, Israel] has been residing and working in London. During this period she participated in numerous group shows and two solo shows, at the VTO Gallery and at the Delfina Gallery [September 2005].

The show at Dvir will open on Thursday, February the 23rd, at 11am, with no opening event.

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