2023
"Rodeh’s third solo show at Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, marks a new, ambitious chapter in her diverse career. CITY DUMMIES is a series of born-digital motion clips marking an artistic shift from traditional filmmaking to post-cinematic engines, in which she creates fictional hyper-realistic urban sceneries depicting embodied machines at play. The protagonists of CITY DUMMIES are assets of the current Zeitgeist acting out at nighttime. Nocturnal scenes show rental-sharing e-Scooters forming a rhythmic light organ; a faulty ATM spits out banknotes—only to get violently shut down by a drone; a gas pump splashes fuels and a pneumatic bollard doubles as a public ashtray. Light, movement, sound and visual effects lead the way into this imaginary urban landscape, commenting on today's increasingly commerce-dominated cities." —Maya Frenkel Tene, curator
Team:
CGI lead: Rachid Moro
CGI R&D: Cai Siewei, Maximilian Blank, Slava Degaltsev
Sound design: Rachid Moro, Daphna Keenan
Documentation: Tal Nisim
The project's development was kindly supported by NEUSTART KULTUR Modul D Deutscher Künstlerbund.
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