| We are two interdisciplinary artists who have lived and worked together since 1994, turning our lives and actions into art. Our work moves freely between life, the visual arts and performance. The decision to live life as a performance and to make art a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This concept of living a staged life dictates our public life and results in a manipulated biography, which is presented in the form of performance, video, installation, painting and writing in our exhibitions. |  |
Gil and Moti
We are two interdisciplinary artists who have lived and worked together since 1994, turning our lives and actions into art. Our work moves freely between life, the visual arts and performance. The decision to live life as a performance and to make art a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This concept of living a staged life dictates our public life and results in a manipulated biography, which is presented in the form of performance, video, installation, painting and writing in our exhibitions.
In 1998, in order to construct a new identity, we moved out of Israel to live and work in Holland. A year later we publicized our life by choosing to turn our home into a gallery space (Gil & Moti Homegallery, Rotterdam). The motivation arose from the need to be close to the audience and from our investigation into the limits of privacy and its social political contexts. Since then, we have travelled and made our home in several exhibition spaces in different cities around the world.
In 2001, we made a public performance of our wedding ceremony, conducted by the mayor of Rotterdam, Mr. Ivo Opstelten, which was followed by a public honeymoon, exhibition and performance in the foyer of Rotterdam city hall (The Gil & Moti Wedding Project). With this installation and performance, we used highly theatrical and hyperbolic gestures to emphasise the imprint that the authorities give to loved ones with the civil marriage registration. The work comments upon neo-family values and questions the normalizing borders marking bourgeoisie high culture by introducing a gay perspective as a refreshing alternative.
A year after our public wedding project we decided to fall in love with an Arab man as a contemporary form of political marriage. The idea stems from the common belief that love can overcome all obstacles and can be a bridge between hostile communities. It is long-term project, which generates major changes
