Sigalit Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography, and sculpture. Landau graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1994. ​

From 2004 the artist begins her series Salt Years. In the desert landscape of the Dead Sea, she plunges various inanimate objects in the waters whose salin- ity crystallise them. She explores this process with an array of objects such as Shoes (Adam, 2018; Unborn, 2016), coats, dresses but also nooses, crutches and musical instruments (Flute 3, 2020; Wave, 2020). Hints at the absence of a person to whom they belong while becoming living be-ings.

Transformed by the salt which changes their color to a glimmering white and thickens their surfaces with layers of salt, the objects lose all relation to their original purpose and become symbols of this loss. On the backdrop of the Dead Sea where Israel, Palestine and Jordan share a border, these objects are acting as an ‘archeology of the now’, transmuted into analogies of hope, love, and a future coexistence between the three bordering countries. ​

Sigalit Landau (b.1969 in Jerusalem, lives and works in Tel Aviv) is on of the most prominent artists working in Israel for the past two decades. She participated in numerous major exhibitions, representing Israel twice at the Venice Biennale (1997, 2011) and on her own in Documenta X (1997). Her NY debut was at the Thread Waxing Space (2001) followed in a MoMA project (2008). Landau had important one person exhibitions in other leading venues, among them are the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2005) and the Berlin KW (2007). Lately, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona featured a semi retrospective of her work (2015), and a comprehensive survey of her video work was presented at the 2016 Wiener Festwochen at the Kunstlehaus in Vienna. Her works are part of prominent collections, both institutional and private, including the MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, Stockholm’s Magazine 3, the NY Jewish Museum, the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of art, the Rubell Family Collection (Miami), the Jose Mugrabi Collection (NY), the Igal Ahouvi Collection (TLV), and the Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Gibraltar).​