Noa Yekutieli at home with "The Chaos of Order”

The Israeli-American artist, Noa Yekutieli, explores the notion of narrative formation by engaging various mediums including site-specific installation, manual paper cutting, photography and drawing. Through disassembly and assembly, Yekutieli explores time, decay, and restoration via a cultural and personal lens. The negative space of the paper cuts renders absence visible, attesting to a loss of information or misplaced memories. Mirroring the human desire for control, the paper cutting is a labor-induced effort that doesn't allow mistakes, it is an irreversible process that emphasizes and demonstrates irreversible destruction.


While quarantined in Los Angeles without access to her studio, Noa Yekutieli developed an installation titled ‘The Chaos in Order’ that slowly spread along the walls and ceiling of her home. What began as a way to clock the days during quarantine grew into an immersive installation based on a photograph of her studio that reformed the room’s dimensions, like a portal into a pseudo landscape. Photographs are juxtaposed along paper-cut images of upside down trees, collapsed ruins, troops, and abstract residue depicting different scenes; like a tapestry that encompasses different points of tension while bearing witness to one historical event unfold. Various narratives are contained within a singular piece of paper, presenting a multi-layered reality; an artwork inside an artwork. The dichotomy between the digital process versus the laborious manual paper cutting technique strikes a tension between two modes of perception, a reflection on a world that became an image of its old self.

Noa Yekutieli (b. 1989) lives and works in Tel-Aviv, Israel and Los Angeles, California. Since 2011 she has been exhibited extensively worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include Degrees of Separation, Augsburg Kunstverien, Germany (2019), Pedestal, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2019), Modern Portrait, NEW POSITION, Art Cologne, with Galerie Sabine Knust, Cologne, Germany (2018), The Other Side, Public Art Installation, Los Angeles, USA (2017), Meeting Place, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany (2017), Fractured Water, Israeli-Palestinian Pavilion, Nakanojo Biennale, Nakanojo, Japan (2017), Transitions, Open Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (2015), Uncontainable, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel (2015), While They Were Moving, They Were Moved, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2015), Reflecting on Shadows, Artist House, Tel-Aviv, Israel (2015), Through The Fog, The Distance, Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz Ha’zorea, Israel (2014) and numerous group exhibitions in China, Japan, Taiwan, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, France, Angola, Israel, and the USA. Yekutieli has participated in various residencies including the Sommer Frische Knust residency in Austria, the Taipei artists village, The Gottesman Etching Center Residency in Israel, Reciprocity, Asylum Arts, Los Angeles, California, and the Fundacao Atre e Cultura in Luanda Angola.

Crew Credits:

Production:
Creator and Executive Producer - Hernán Díaz Alonso
Producers - Marcelyn Gow/Reza Monahan
Director of Photography - Sean Meredith

Post-Production:
Story Producer - Vivian Charlesworth
Editors - Cal Crawford/Reza Monahan

Additional Images and Video Courtesy of Noa Yekutieli and Track 16 Gallery

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