Sigalit Landau born 1969, Jerusalem, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography and sculpture. Her ongoing Dead Sea art project, a magnum opus, comprises artworks in diverse media. These works become a physical reality hovering between life and death, subsequently transformed into salt. In Landau’s creative process the materials change states, transgress cultural categories of obedience, and are doomed eternally to salt. In the Dead Sea, to be turned into salt is to be turned into the opposite state of the living. Her art pieces are cultivated with salt crystals, like an oyster farm, using an organic process to transform mundane, everyday, usually useless artifacts into objects of mesmerizing and haunting beauty. For Landau, the Dead Sea is a mystical, enchanted site. One with significance from her past, dominating her presence, and marking the future. It is where creative rituals are performed that transform her used objects into works of art.
