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"Tanya Ury uses text, sound and image
in her projects. As opposed to a theory of the form and content of the
work of art, however, it is here the intention of the artist that stands
in the foreground. The artist conceives herself to be a medium, intermediary
between life and art. Her conceptions are expressed, always with great
effectiveness, in the free use she makes of resources and possibilities:
in the form of photography, with text, video, with sound, and installation,
in the form of audiocassette, neon sign or story telling. The sources
and roots of her stories are linked to catastrophic historical circumstances.
History is not just understood as something that exists in the past.
Ury's text Transcending the Ladder
forms part of a series, along with other investigations such as Taking
on the Mantle 1999 (1) Die
Gehängten/Hung Up 1999 (2) and
Building Bridges
2001 (3), which, like the selection of her pictures in the text, show
that the facts established by research provide the conditions for the
fiction that is a work of art." (1) in: AufBrüche - Kulturelle Produktionen
von Migrantinnen, Schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen in Deutschland
(Marginal Cracks - Cultural Production of Women Migrants, Black and
Jewish Women in Germany), Ulrike Helmer Verlag ISBN 3-89741-042-7 (D) |
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