Keren Cytter
Keren Cytter was born 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in Avni Institute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers. Today, she lives and works in Berlin.
Keren Cytter is engaged in representations of social realities through experimental storytelling in which she cultivates radical subjectivity as a challenge to the restraints and rules of genres and language, both written and cinematic. Recalling amateur home-movies and video diaries, her films and videos are made of re-composed elements of the everyday, of impressions, memories, imaginings, desires and dreams. The scripts are part of the stories themselves, and the story in turn is always a story of the clash between a (perfect) script and an (imperfect) reality.
In 2008, Keren Cytter formed the dance theater group Dance International Europe Now. The evolving ensemble is composed of an increasingly intricate inter-play of theatrical genres and visual mediums.
Keren Cytter is engaged in representations of social realities through experimental storytelling in which she cultivates radical subjectivity as a challenge to the restraints and rules of genres and language, both written and cinematic. Recalling amateur home-movies and video diaries, her films and videos are made of re-composed elements of the everyday, of impressions, memories, imaginings, desires and dreams. The scripts are part of the stories themselves, and the story in turn is always a story of the clash between a (perfect) script and an (imperfect) reality.
In 2008, Keren Cytter formed the dance theater group Dance International Europe Now. The evolving ensemble is composed of an increasingly intricate inter-play of theatrical genres and visual mediums.