Full Description
The Gil and Moti Wedding Project is one part civil rights celebration, one part public performance art, and one part affirmation of love. Gil and Moti, two Israeli artists living in Holland, were married in 2001 by the mayor of Rotterdam, with an entourage outfitted in a fashion best described as Ben Hur on glitter.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
We are duo interdisciplinary artists who live and work together since 1994. In order to construct a new identity we moved out of Israel to live and work in Holland, in 1998. A year later we publicised our life by choosing to make our home in a gallery space (Gil & Moti Homegallery Rotterdam). The motivation derived from the need to be close to the public and also out of interest in the limits of privacy and its social political contexts.
Our work moves freely from life to the visual arts and to performance. The decision to live life as a performance and art as a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This concept of living a staged life publicly dictates our daily life and results in a manipulative exhibited biography; in painting, installation, video, performance, writing, etc.
With our work we explore surprising juxtapositions of private space and public life. The multimedia installations and performances are consistently image based; the images we use are extraordinary and approachable, meant to capture the viewer like popular icons. The work examines the relationship between biographical inquiry and popular culture. Further, our art questions the normative borders marking bourgeoisie high culture by introducing a gay perspective as a refreshing alternative., We are duo interdisciplinary artists who live and work together since 1994. In order to construct a new identity we moved out of Israel to live and work in Holland, in 1998. A year later we publicised our life by choosing to make our home in a gallery space (Gil & Moti Homegallery Rotterdam). The motivation derived from the need to be close to the public and also out of interest in the limits of privacy and its social political contexts.
Our work moves freely from life to the visual arts and to performance. The decision to live life as a performance and art as a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This concept of living a staged life publicly dictates our daily life and results in a manipulative exhibited biography; in painting, installation, video, performance, writing, etc.
With our work we explore surprising juxtapositions of private space and public life. The multimedia installations and performances are consistently image based; the images we use are extraordinary and approachable, meant to capture the viewer like popular icons. The work examines the relationship between biographical inquiry and popular culture. Further, our art questions the normative borders marking bourgeoisie high culture by introducing a gay perspective as a refreshing alternative.
