VOLTA: Yael Kanarek

Art installations by Yael Kanarek broaden a story space called World of Awe (www.worldofawe.net) that was initiated online in 1995. Integrating a range of media into an advanced hyper-textual system, Kanarek expands the ancient genre of a traveler’s tale. Over the past decade, she has developed a unique vocabulary of networked interfaces using photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Recent works feature multilingual compositions of words and narrative that depict the charged spaces that exist between languag

Yael Kanarek, My Mondrian: Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 2009, loctite, wood, rubber words in four languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, 61 x 61 x 5 cm