Ilit Azoulay « Queendom » Israel Pavilion Venice Biennale Art Exhibition

Ilit Azoulay was born in 1972 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She lives and works in Berlin. Her works (Photomontages) are presented at the Israel Pavilion of the Biennale at the Giardini.

To do his works, Ilit Azoulay reappropriated the research work of art historian David Storm Rice (1913-1962).

For the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem, Storm Rice photographed thousands of pieces of inlaid and embossed metal tableware, objects made and sold in the Middle East, regardless of their ethnic or religious origins.

Most of these objects arrived in Europe via Venice and thus ended up in the collections of many Western museums where Storm Rice photographed them.

Ilit Azoulay studied the work of Storm Rice and became interested in the regional history of photographed objects.

She scanned the photographs of the historian, then enlarged, cut, superimposed and transformed them by photomontage creating new objects with different origins and thus creating new links between them.

The new life she gave to these objects and their metamorphosis gave birth to this exhibition “Queendom”, her feminine kingdom.

According to her, this digital female kingdom created by Ilit Azoulay is a response to the poor functioning of the national and universal patriarchal power structures that preceded us.

Her work must be seen as a new order extracted from his digital realm, her “Queendom” ready to spread in our real world and transform it.

Ilit Azoulay, Queendom Panel 1

Queendom Panel 2

Queendom Panel 3

Ilit Azoulay, Queendom Panel 4

Queendom Panel 5

Ilit Azoulay, Queendom Panel 5

Ilit Azoulay, Queendom Panel 6

Ilit Azoulay, Queendom Panel 7