Maya Zack – Memory trilogy

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MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show of Maya Zack in Brussels. The exhibition entitled Memory Trilogy, presents the three videos Mother Economy (2007), Black and White Rule (2011) and Counterlight (2016) – all exhibited last spring in the Tel Aviv Art Museum – and the installation Living Room (2009-2010), together with other drawings by the artist.

The tension between Art and Memory constitutes the foundation of Maya's research which applies many artistic techniques including video, drawing, photography, and sculpture to investigate the fragile and elusive character of memory. She focuses on contrasting the fleeting nature of memory through her personal method of recording reality. Female figures – often the protagonists of her works – are seen trying to document, catalogue, and measure reality in an attempt to impose order and form to its chaotic nature. The psychological necessity to create order – which in turn becomes a mirror for the surrounding disorder – is placed in relation to daily routine, bureaucratic procedures, and visual practices such as drawing and writing. The result of this process are sheets of paper, scribbled notes, equations and charts; fragments that are disassembled, cut up and then reassembled with scientific rigour. Through repetitive gestures, these exasperated and compulsive-obsessive actions become self-propagating to generate a distorted and unreal reflection of reality. read more

Maya Zack (1976, Israel), artist and filmmaker, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Since 2008 she has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem.

Among the solo shows: Counterlight, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (2016); Outlined Absence, Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, Saint Petersburg (2014); The Shabbat Room, (permanent installation) Jewish Museum, Wien (2013); Living Room, The Jewish Museum, New York (2011); Made to Measure, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome (2012); Mother Economy, The Jewish Museum, Media Center Gallery, New York (2011). Among the group shows: Das Kapital. Schuld – Territorium – Utopie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2016); Bibliology, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (2015); Back to Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel (2014); International Photography Festival, Israel (2014); The Drawingroom, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2014); The 3rd Moscow International Biennal for Young Art, Moscow (2012); Pluriel-Regards sur l'art contemporain israélien, Villa Emerige, Paris (2012); Magic Lantern, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2011); Heimatkunde (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home), Jewish Museum, Berlin (2011). She received important aknowledgments and awards: Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for Israeli Artist, Idud Hayetzira Prize – Israeli Ministry of Culture, Adi Prize (Adi Foundation and the Israel Museum Jerusalem), Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, Israel Lottery Council of the Arts, CCA Tel Aviv.