Keren Cytter: Avalanche at DRAF, Camden

14 January–12 March 2011
Roberts Institute of Art

‘Every page will correspond with the page following it and the page preceding it. The paragraphs and the sentences in it will correspond with the following and preceding sentences and single words which might not be written in the following lines.

Is this enough?

No

It isn’t’

— Keren Cytter, White Diaries

Avalanche is a solo exhibition Keren Cytter in two parts, starting in two spaces. For the first half, Keren Cytter produces an ambitious new work in Berlin and London, consisting of a four-screen installation that will be shown at DRAF’s Camden space and Pilar Corrias Gallery, with the installation in each space existing in dialogue with the other.

The second half of the exhibition introduces a sharp change of focus. The artist alters the formula of a solo show by abandoning the control of its content. Solely at DRAF from 15 February, Cytter asks artists Willem de Rooij and Falke Pisano to select a group of her films and to define the content of her exhibition. Pisano selected French Film (2002), Les Ruissellements du Diable (2008), The hottest day of the year, part 1 and 2, (2010). De Rooij selected Continuity (2005) and New Age (2007)

All films courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.

Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter was born 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1997–1999 she studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and in 2002–2004 at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Båloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2006. She also received the Ars Viva Prize in 2008 and the Absolut Art Award in 2009. In 2009, she was shortlisted for the Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art in Berlin.