
The title of the piece makes this allusion explicit: the Phoenicians were sailors and traders throughout the eastern Mediterranean region, who established city-states in what are today Lebanon and Syria. The Phoenician alphabet, which used symbols for sounds, also became incorporated in the early Greek and other alphabets of the region. Landau’s dance thus first and foremost evokes the ancient history of the Mediterranean; and the figures marked out by the dancers, both in their movements and in their tracings through the sand, represent a kind of primordial language.
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Sigalit Landau (b.1969, Israel)
Phoenician Sand Dance, 2005
02/19/2018 - 12/31/2018
Israeli Contemporary Art from the Tiroche DeLeon and ST-ART Collections
Modern Art Research Institute, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
03/14/2017 - 03/26/2017
The Israeli Booth, 54th International Art Exhibition
The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
June 2011 - November 2011
Sigalit Landau - One man's floor is another man's feelings
54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia - Israeli Pavilion (Catalogue), 2011
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