Avalanche

Raffaella Cortese is proud to present the first solo exhibition in an Italian art gallery of Israeli artist Keren Cytter (b. 1977). Cytter has been critically and popularly acclaimed for her innovative way of narrating conflictual relationships. The artist breaks down the conventions of cinematic language by using tragicomical overtones and multiple story lines that constantly manage to surprise the spectator with an existentialist, dream-like representation of daily life. A hypsterish theatre de l’absurd, Cytter’s videos are at once reminiscent of Ionesco’ plays and Caravaggio’s naturalism, vacillating between Wes Andersonian juvenilia and Gus Van Sant’s solemn explicitness. An artist as well as a writer, Cytter has published three novels and three theater plays. She showed at Gemec, Bergamo, at Manifesta 7 in 2008 and at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009.