Marie Detached? Marie Hai Cohen Marie is a solo work that unfolds through a movement trajectory, charging the body with a subtle tension between precision and a slumped state. Within a defined performative space, simple actions acquire weight and substance. The work explores the representation of an atypical body and invites a direct encounter with it. Detached? Zuki RingArt The piece unfolds within the tension between my connection to and detachment from Israeliness, shaped by my perspective as an artist born and raised in Israel, living in Berlin in recent years. Nationality, language, traditions, beliefs – they all became embedded in the body, and then the body moved elsewhere. Now, I discover them as raw, burning physical material within me. So I think about drawing near, or at least probing this distance. I engage with canonical national physical practices such as folk dance and Krav Maga. Alone. With no partners in the circle, and no body of an enemy present. Detached? creates a space to observe what happens to them within me, to observe the relationship between the body and Israeliness from the distance I chose.
