25FT is an installation of video and still photographs appropriated from Israeli army surveillance cameras monitoring activity along the separation wall with Palestine. The work simulates the position of the soldier controlling a thermal camera, focusing only on animals and the landscape in the occupied West Bank. The appearance of these animals raises doubts about the border, its function, and what it represents. Humans are absent, yet their presence is visible through the camera’s tracking movement, military radio exchange, the fence, and signs of urban structures; whether they are empty or inhabited, it is unclear.
25ft, 2016. 25 min
Netta Laufer (b. 1986) lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Laufer has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2016) and a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL (2013). Her photographs and video installations have been shown worldwide in venues such as Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, KR, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, IL (2024) (Solo Exhibition); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL (2023); Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT (2021); Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL (2021), among others. In addition, Laufer is a recipient of The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2022), The Ministry of Culture Awards in the Field of Plastic Arts (2022), and The SVA Alumni Scholarship Award.
Sound: Yuval Semo
