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We are a multidisciplinary New York based artist team, working together since 2000. We were both born abroad, but have been living in the United States for over twenty years and we often play with ideas centered on cultural foreignness, social misfits and national identity in our work. Our early projects were mostly based on our own experience, and over last ten years our interest has gradually shifted into processing our communal experience, defining social structures, looking into cultural standards and exploring "foreignness" as a condition that gives a new perspective to the familiar. Our ongoing anthropological survey has lead us to work with different artistic mediums, from a photographic journey based on Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary to the site-specific project Language Barrier and the public dialogue project Casual Conversations in Brooklyn. Our works have been internationally exhibited. Selected shows include the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia), Bat-Yam Museum (Israel), Busan Biennale 2006 (South Korea), The Jewish Museum (NY), Assab One (Italy), Castlefield Gallery (UK) and Andrea Meislin Gallery (NY). Our video works have been screened at many festivals such as New York Video Festival (USA), Media Art Festival Friesland (Netherlands), Resfest 10, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (USA) and Videomedeja (Serbia). Our works are in various private and public collections, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), Bat-Yam Museum (Israel), the Saatchi Collection (UK) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK). |