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Michal Rovner

(1957) Visual Artist

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Michal Rovner is a visual artist.

Quick Facts About Michal Rovner

Born: November 7, 1957
Profession: Visual Artist

About Michal Rovner

[Wikidata] Israeli artist (born 1957)... | [Wikipedia] Michal Rovner, also known as Michal Rovner Hammer, is an Israeli contemporary artist, she is known for her video, photo, and cinema artwork. Rovner is internationally known with exhibitions at major museums, including the Louvre (2011) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002). She is the recipi

Quotes by Michal Rovner

There's this progress, incredible progress of technology, everything is figured out, everything is known, everything is systematic and under control, communication is…

Chaotic

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I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that…

Decided

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Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the…

Alive

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You look at them, the animals in the wild, and they stay the same. They have their rules which I cannot decipher,…

Animal

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I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know…

Evening

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I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need…

Art

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I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

Real

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I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go…

Consideration

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The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.

Children

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We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we…

Aspect

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That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us,…

Animal

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Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything,…

Big picture

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We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do…

Refugee

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Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and…

Able

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I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

Decline

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We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time.…

Getting used

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I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us…

Avoiding

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We're always trying to avoid being in the darkness, not knowing, and also encountering animals. There's something about them not wanting to…

Always trying

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We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is…

Advances in science

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You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you.…

Feels

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I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really…

Film

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There's something about night and day, and life and death, but animals are also mentioned a lot of times in the bible,…

Animal

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