Ruti Sela: The Witness (working title)

“My artistic work turns on the modes of representation of perceptive collaborative works that arise through the merging of documentary forms of expression and fictive interventions. My interest is in challenging modes of expression facilitating the experience of power relations, and to bring these to expression.

The invitation to follow the development of “Moments”, and to accompany this development with the camera so as to evolve from it an independent work, provides me with an opportunity to think about the idea of testimony and knowledge/power. My aim is to critically examine the witness’s function, and to adapt the given possibilities – the respective situation in which he is present or which he bears testimony. (...)”
– Ruti Sela