Gil & Moti: Love Stories

From 18 March until 19 April Gil & Moti have their exhibition ‘Love Stories’ in the Front andMiddle Spaces of De Praktijk.

Gil & Moti are Israeli, Jewish and gay. With most of their works they contribute to the contemporary debates about segregation and the rules of social coexistence. Gil & Moti, duo pan media artists, live and work together in Rotterdam since 1998.

The work of Gil & Moti often deals with the effect of the public space on human relationships. Most of their projects involve the rehabilitation of the network of relationships in a given community or neighbourhood, the "recharging" of the unused spaces of public institutions, the transformation of the streets, etcetera. An analytic critique of the relationship of private life and public space constitutes an important facet of their work.

Feeling frustrated with the Middle East conflict, they have decided in 2002, a year after their public Wedding Project (Rotterdam, City Hall, 2001) to fall in love with an Arab man as a contemporary form of political marriage. The idea originates in the common belief that love can overcome all obstacles and bridges between the hostile people. It is long term project, which generates major changes in their family life. In Love Stories Gil & Moti show oil paintings, water-colours, photo prints, videos, sculptures, garments. All these objects are evidences to adventurous threesome love stories with Arab men happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa, New York, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam.

During the opening of ‘Love Stories’ on 18 March Gil & Moti, together with M. Hirzalla (actor, Palestinian, currently he is living in Paris) do the performance ‘No Matter’.

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