BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION
2010
HD Video 23:00 min
REVIEW http://artforum.com/archive/id=25964
Inspired by Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963), BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of male thug culture in East Jerusalem, manifested in barbershops, autoshops and body building. At the same time psychologizing and seduced by her subject, the artist finds herself in a double bind, a dilemma that resonates with the muddled desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry or unashamed self-praise.
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