NEW MEDIA CENTER EXHIBITION
OBJECT OF DESIRE: YAEL KANAREK’S WORLD OF AWE
The Jewish Museum will present Object of Desire: Yael Kanarek’s World of Awe in theMuseum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. Object of Desire is the third and newest installment of Yael Kanarek’s World of Awe project, an online travelogue chronicling the search for a lost treasure in a virtual desert landscape called Sunset/Sunrise.
Featuring fifteen richly animated scenes that integrate English, Arabic, and Hebrew, Object of Desire draws from ancient Near Eastern themes as well as contemporary popular culture in a trilingual story space.
Object of Desire’s scenes include a cave where one finds a hidden recipe for sesame cookies written in C programming language; a fossilized Noah’s Ark containing a trove of creatures who do not fit into male/female categories; a three-pronged structure of Arabic, Hebrew, and English alphabets that sails across a saffron-colored sky like a flock of birds; and a three-dimensional map of falafel restaurants that superimposes the Middle East on the East Village.
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