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Everglades

Dana Levy

2014 00:06:49 United StatesEnglishColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Everglades is a project Levy began while a resident artist in Florida's Everglades National Park. The unique natural environment of the Everglades has been devastated by decades of wetlands drainage for purposes of industrial and residential development, and today it is threatened by fracking and deep water drilling. At the same time, efforts have been made to restore some of the original ecosystems through a process of re-flooding, not unlike the restoration of Lake Hula in the north of Israel. Levy penetrated this humid, insect-filled undergrowth at night, projected phosphorescent color effects, and added other digital image-sampling to create a hard-to-decipher, abstract scene. Her soundtrack contains noises - both animal and industrial - from the actual site, together with audio effects derived from the internet. The result is a nature film gone wild, a bleak spectacle that challenges definitions of natural surroundings and perceptions of the viewer's place in them. 

— Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv and lives and works in New York.

She was the 2019/2020 Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Art in Washington University, St. Louis. She was the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Other awards include the 2017 City of Budapest talent Award, and the 2013 the Beatrice Kolliner Award from the Israel Museum.

In 2021 her solo exhibition opened at the Saint Louis Art Museum, other solo exhibitions include at Fridman Gallery NYC (2019), The Israel Museum Jerusalem (2015), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2014), Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv (2012), Nicelle Beauchene Gallery NYC (2010), and more.
She has participated in group shows and screenings  including at Videonale at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2021), C24 gallery NYC (2019) Screen City Biennal Stavanger (2018), Kadist Gallery San Francisco (2017), Johannes Vogt Gallery NYC (2016), Fridman Gallery NY (2015) Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena (2014), Wexner Center of Art (2012), The Bass Museum (2012), Tribeca Film Festival (2013), The Tel Aviv Museum (2016), Harn Museum of Art (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2010), Tate London (2010), Invisible Exports NY (2010) and more.