“These waters are like a laboratory,” says the artist, looking for a roll of barbed wire encrusted with salt, with its ends rounded by the covering left by the mineral-rich water heated by the sun.
“What you’re looking at,” he says in amazement, “are the spikes, which are menacing and sharp, but now they’re coated and a bit clogged, looking scaly.”
The Dead Sea, a popular tourist destination flanked by cliffs, offers constant surprises by the way he changes objectssays Landau: “You become very humble. What the sea wants, it will get.”
The woman hangs the objects on frames in the salt lake. Later, she removes them. Some become so heavy from the salt sticking to them that they must be carried by four people.
Landau, whose fascination with the Dead Sea began with video art decades ago, says he has witnessed the “man-made disaster” threatening the lake, located between Israel and the occupied West Bank on one side and Jordan on the other.
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- Israel and Jordan have diverted the waters of the Jordan River that feed the lake, while exploiting its minerals.
- The water level has dropped about a meter a year in recent decades, and the Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960.
Meanwhile, dozens of Landau’s Dead Sea sculptures, as well as old and new video art installationswill be exhibited in October at the Israel Museum of Jerusalem.
Source: Ambito
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