Gal Amiram Gottlieb
Research-based visual artist working across photography, collage, video, and artist publications.
Take a Spin
In Take a Spin, Amiram uses The New York Times’ 360-degree virtual-reality video of the Calais migrant camp in France to subvert its universalizing gaze. Rather than follow the video’s prescribed narrative and path, she navigated its peripheral spaces, capturing scenes filled with distortions, debris, and glitches.
These images were then used to produce three-dimensional objects that reconstruct the camp’s virtual environment. Unlike the original VR experience, the resulting installation is visually disorienting and deliberately misshapen, filled with errors and devoid of a clear chronology or narrative. In doing so, the work underscores the technological limitations of representation.
2017
