Shira Richter
Projects
Biography
Shira Richter-artist, activist, mother-a trinity of roles which are inextricably linked, each one informing and inflecting the other. However, when it comes to Richter's photographic works, the aesthetic experience is given priority. As an artist-activist, Richter has a nuanced understanding of the power of images and their ability to conduct complex issues through linguistic and cultural barriers.
Richter's experience as a film maker gave her valuable insight into "talking" to the audience. Thus her works break through the conceptual boundary that can often separate the art world from world reality, to illuminate international social issues concerning women and in particular, motherhood.
Richter's oeuvre involves a re-education of perception, where the everyday is re-contextualized as art to bring about a fresh perspective on naturalized aspects of socio-political order. Richter's art has often been used by institutions, doctors, and activists to deliver their message more effectively. Similarly, Richter has lectured at conferences in Canada, Britain, India, Turkey, Cuba and Germany
Movies:
- Two States of Mind, 60 min. Film director, screen writer cinematographer. Post Production producer. Israeli –Paslestinian Co-production.
- Is this Funny? Ongoing documentary Film. Director, screen writer, cinematographer, Producer. About women comedians in Israel, trying, against all odds, to succeed, as a group. Based on the book by Naomi Wolf Fire with Fire.
- Scream Quietly, 45-min. drama comedy. Director and Screen Writer.
Publication:
- 2009: Any Woman in the Director’s Room? Written for special issue zine Who’s Voice is it anyway? Part of English Electronic Art Magazine Maarav. (ambush) One of the leading publications on art and culture in Israel and the leading online art & culture Magazine in Israel
- 2009: London - Mapping the Gap Electronic paper (illustrated) for International Conference M(0)ther Trouble. Birkbeck University.
- 2009: Madications - Short Story about mother and daughter and mental health. Published in a book by the name One Hundred Mothers.Publishers- Babel.
- 2009: Poem-“I’m Writing Now”- published in a book named “Being a Mother” by Tamar Mor Sela. Yediot Aharonot publication.
- 2005: “Mother”, Street poem, printed on large banner in public main street- International Women’s Moth, Herzeliya
- 1999 - 2000 Video Art, photography and performance with Curator Doron Polak and Terra Group, Artura Artist Museum, Tel Aviv,
- 1999 - 2000 Poetry performances in Tel-Aviv venues; The Balcony, Tsavta Basement, The Alley Theater, Yafo, Tel Aviv, Pargod Theater, Jerusalem.
- 1999 - 2000: Poems, a desktop-published book (Hebrew and English)
Filmography
Exhibitions
- 2011, "Invisible Invaluables", Show Tel- Aviv Artist's House, Israel Solo
- 2010, "White Cube Black Cube", Kalisher, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2010, "Representing Motherhood Mothers in the Arts", International Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- 2010, "Not Had Gadya", Sara Erman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Isreal
- 2010, "Mirror Mirror", Woman’s Week Exhibition, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2010, "Windowstallation", Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2009, "Flesh and Blood", Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, Group
- 2009, "Art Display", Group
- 2009, "Neulot", Yaffo Hangar, Israel, Group
- 2009, "M(o)ther Trouble, Birkbeck University, London, Great Britain
- 2009, "Night in the City", Ramat Eliyahoo Art Workshop, Rishon Letsion, Israel
- 2009, "Midnight", Studio 22 Yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2009, "Art of Emergency", Artneuland, Berlin, Germany
- 2008, "Skin", Kastiel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2008, “Mother Earth and all that Crap”, Women in Center Frame, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- 2008, "Artist Residence Artists Show", Gallery Artist Residence, Herzeliya, Israel
- 2007, "Art Alert", Artists’ Residence Herzeliya, Israel
- 2006, "International Conference for Education for Peace and Democracy", Turkey
- 2006, "Disruptions and Disturbances", Titan Design and Art House, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2005, “League”, Comme il Faut, House on the pier, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2005, "Wounds and Bandages", Um El-Fahem Gallery
- 2004, "Breastfeeding, Installation", Herzeliya Municipality, Israel
- 1999 - 2000, "Pastel Nudes" Tam Gallery, Artist’s House Tel Aviv, Solo
Awards
Wins
Gady Keny Grant for Activism on dialogue issues between Israelis and Palestinians.
Awarded Best Film of the International Jewish Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. Third Place Audience Award Feminale – International Women’s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany Roberto Cimetta Award for Performing Artists in the Mediterranean BBC World chose interview with Ms. Richter as “Best of the year”America-Israel Cultural Foundation AwardInternational Chicago Film Festival Merit Award, Broadcast by Israel TV Channel 2Ministry of Commerce and Industry Grant, America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award
Articles & Interviews
"Richter’s powerful and tender road movie [Two States of Mind] follows navigator Naomi Ackerman and driver Ihsan Turkieh on the challenging annual women’s car rally through the Sahara." - Gowri Ramnarayan, Tale of Two Countries. The Hindu, June 11, 2007.
Artist Recommends
The films Precious and Ajami and the authors Erica Jong, Naomi Wolf, Marilyn Waring, Arundhati Roy, and Miriam Bradley Zimmer.
She also recommends coffee with honey, corn chips, and a staple of bittersweet chocolate.
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