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A film by the Israeli artist Yael Bartana , Assassination is presented parallel to the exhibition and Europe will be stunned in the Polonia Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice. For the first time ever, Poland is represented in the biennale by a foreign artist. Assassination is the last part of Bartanas Polish trilogy, which also includes Nightmares (2007) and Wall and Tower (2009).
Bartanas project is a kind of experimental national psychotherapy, during which historical demons are waken up and brought to the surface. Notwithstanding a complex picture of Polish-Jewish relations, it is also a universal narrative about our readiness to accept the Other and the problem of cultural integration in an unstable world full of political tensions and breakthroughs. The films traverse a landscape scarred by the histories of competing nationalisms and militarisms, overflowing with the narratives of the Israeli settlement movement, Zionist dreams, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the Palestinian right of return.
Present for the first time in whole at the Polonia Pavilion, Yael Bartana s film trilogy is dedicated to the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland. Initiated by the artist, the movement calls for the return of three million Jews to the land of their forefathers. In the last part of the trilogy, Bartana deals with the dream of building a multiethnic community, a new Polish society. Assassination is set in the near future, during the funeral ceremonies of the JRMP leader, who has died from the hands of an unknown assassin. The leaders death becomes the founding myth of a new movement, which might turn into an actual political proposition to be implemented in the nearest future in Poland, somewhere else in Europe, or in the Middle East. The film was made in spring 2011 in Warsaw: around Krakowskie Przedmiescie street in the Palace of Culture and Science, in Pilsudski square. JRMiP members demonstrated in the streets of Warsaw, mingling with animal rights activists or groups praying for the victims of the Smolensk disaster in front of the Presidential Palace, provoking both sympathetic and hateful reactions. The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland will hold its first congress during the Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2012.
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