Space Element
2015
LCD screen and video
57 1/8 x 32 5/8”

Michal Rovner (b. 1957, Ramat Gan, Israel) is an artist whose work in video, sculpture, drawing, sound and installation has been exhibited in over 60 solo exhibitions. In 1978, she co-founded the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, the city’s first school for photographers. In 2006, Rovner began a series of monumental structures titled “Makom” (Place) using stones from dismantled or destroyed Israeli and Palestinian houses. She worked with Israeli and Palestinian masons to construct new spaces encompassing history, memory and time. In 2013, Rovner created the installation “Traces of Life” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland, devoted to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Shoah (Holocaust). Rovner lives and works in New York and Israel.