DISPLEASURE CITY - A VISUAL TRAGEDY 2003 - 2005

Displeasure City is an epic story; its narrative style is derived from traditional Greek tragedy. Using the stylistic rules of writing drama as described in ‘Poetica’ by Aristotle, Efrat Zehavi translates these rules into visual and sculptural instructions. Instead of actors on a stage, the viewers construct the narrative themselves by ‘traveling’ through the scenes. The viewer unravels the play by walking through the exhibition spaces as if they were the literary acts of the piece; his or her own tempo becomes the playing time of this tragedy.

Technical information about the installation:

The installation combines photocopies collages, paper cutouts from photocopies of reproductions of classic sculptures; plaster sculptures, digital processed photograph, and sound.

Hanged Heroes: glossy photocopies paper glued on white PVC Around 160-170 cm length.

Table: Paper cutouts under layers of glass 100x300 cm

Dead Hero on table - Inject print 60x180 cm under glass

Sculptures: painted plaster 35-45 cm