Shir Handelsman: Recitative by VisArts

Shir Handelsman: Recitative by VisArts

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An opera singer stands on a lifting platform reaching to the sky and sings a Martyr's wish for redemption. His fantasy spectacle creates a counterpoint between human voice and mechanical sounds of other platforms moving in space. The music, taken from one of J.S Bach's cantatas, is the Recitative Movement which describes the ascension of Christ and expresses the desire to become one with god. Shir Handelsman was born in 1989. He lives and works in Tel Aviv and graduated his BFA studies at the Department of Multidisciplinary Art of Shenkar College in 2018. He specialized in video, sound, drawing, sculpture, and installation. In 2017 he attended an exchange program at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris. Shir began his professional career as a musician, a saxophone player, and performer. He participated in various ensembles and jazz orchestras and composed music for theater productions. After completing his military service as an Excelling Musician (2010), Shir began his BA studies in literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, which he graduated with honors (2013). In 2019 Handelsman exhibited in "Charlottenborg Forårsudstilling 2019”, the annual international group exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, with his short film "Zazie". In addition, he will participate in the eighth BF Artist Film Festival, which will take place at Leeds and London, UK (February and March 2019). In his works, Shir explores the relations between sound and visual images by using human encounters and situations that become surreal and absurd. He creates damaged sound machines, visual disturbances, and manipulations on the image, in order to expose the disruptions that exist also in intimate human relations.

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