Knafeh
Engaging exhibition at Marlborough Contemporary art of recent work by Sigalit Landau. The work fell into four groups. There were photos of sand works, shapes made on breaches by people, some of which included the people but other just had foot prints and lines. Then there were marble sculptures carved in the form of different posed breast feeding cushions. These created lovely smooth, Henry Moore like shapes and it wasn’t until you went close that you realised what they were. I loved her salt works, which were objects she had left in the Dead Sea to be crystallised. Best were the nooses which had a fragile look for such an ugly object. Fascinatingly she has plans to create a crystallised salt bridge across the Dead Sea to cross the gap between Israel and Palestine. That could be so moving. However my favourite piece was a video work, and yes I know I have been rude about video art recently! This showed the making of an Arabic sweet-meat called knafeh. It is filmed fro...