De-Kalo Mali
מלי דה-קאלו
Video
Looking at Herself
Azrieli Gallery, Jerusalem, 2023
Curator: Tali Kayam
August 17th
2022
Curator: Dalia Danon
Excerpt from Let Me See, 1:34 of 17:44 min
From "Let Me See", Shechter Gallery, Neve Shechter, Tel Aviv, 2021
Curator: Shira Friedman
Excerpt from chapter one, 3:00 of 9:41 min
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Excerpt from chapter two, 3:00 of 9:04 min
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Excerpt from chapter three, 01:53 of 10:53 min
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Excerpt from chapter four, 03:03 of 09:25 min
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Excerpt from chapter five, 02:50 of 10:23 min
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Unfold
From "The form of a Giant", Ein Harod museum of art, 2019
Curator: Yaniv Shapira
Wheat, Black suits
Pyramida art center, Haifa, 2018
Curator: Galia Bar Or
The Merciless Enchantress,
Beit Rami and Uri Nehoshtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov, 2016
Curator: Tali Tamir
One Video out of five, from the exhibition Five Signs Chronology, Ha'Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
The Laughter, 8:20 min, 2015
Breakfast, 2:59 min of 6:02 min, 2013
Installation view for Relaying #2 2015, Testimonies on Motherhood Lost,
a multi channel video installation
at the MECA galleries, Mana Contemporary, JC
Relaying, excerpt from 3 monologues, 2014
Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, Louisiana
"RELAYING: Testimonies on Motherhood Lost, a Four-Channel Video Installation"
Confronting the boundaries between the art world and social action, Relaying presents testimonial monologues spoken in three languages: English, Arabic, and Hebrew tolled by mothers whose children refuse to have any contact with them as a result of the breakdown of the family unit. The installation puts video art to work, relaying the harsh realities of motherhood interrupted, of families blown apart, and of secrets made public in order to heal.
Excerpt from a single monologue, 2:22 min, 2014
(one out of eight testimonies ) from the RELAYING project
Three Short Stories, 0:52 sec of 6:24 min , 2014
8 Lifts, 4:21 min, 2013
8 Lifts explores the uncontrollable moment, when one discrete action is expanded and blended into something else entirely. Here, footage of mothers lifting their children is duplicated and sped up to disturbing intervals, perverting motherhood with proportion and speed.
From Me To You, 0:58 sec of 3:40 min, 2012
Video Installation, Awake at Night, 4:43 min 0f 9:41 min, 2010
In the Video piece Awake at Night I filmed my children while they were asleep. This video installation manifests itself as a double take on breathing, asking questions about family intimacy, and dealing with the blatant violation of boundaries in the love-anxiety relationships within the family framework.
When we moved to our new house, we underwent a crisis. As a result of that crisis, on sleepless nights, I started filming my children while they were asleep.
I asked for their permission in the previous evening and they didn’t express any objection. I felt I had to ask them, though.
While filming, I tied the camera on to my chest, so that the movements seen in the video are mainly due to the rhythm of my breathing. This split screen video shows the filmed objects (my kids) as being 'held captive' in their beds while the camera is the one moving, giving away every slight movement of my body. While my act of breathing is visible through the camera’s movement, their breathing is being heard in the space. Although I obtained their consent for filming, the whole process was conceived by me as brutal and intrusive, blurring the boundaries of right and wrong in love life, in family life.
In this video piece 'Finkielkraut', my daughter and I are being filmed during dinner time. While eating I read aloud to my daughter an article about the ethnic riots that took place in Paris in 2005. My reading is being done in the way one would read a children’s story with all the appropriate intonation. My daughter, who is immersed in her own private world playing with an umbrella, is not really capable of understanding the 'story' and nonetheless very attentive, responsive and cooperative. For me, reading is an act of survival. Reading aloud an article I'd like to read to myself keeps my sanity in the role of the mother-artist.
The article (from Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper)) talks about the political stance of the ex-leftist Jewish philosopher, Finkielkraut, who is currently accused of racism against French citizens whose origin is North African. A striking similarity between the ethno-political situation in France, and here in Israel, reflects the notion of the ‘fear of the other’, the Moslem, the Arab.
Baudrillard, 0:37 min 0f 3:34 min, 2012
Finkielkraut, 0:50 min of 6:06 min, 2005/9