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Over The Doorstep (Ant Colonies)
Netai Halup
Over The Doorstep (Ant Colonies)
Netai Halup
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There’s an ant colony outside my door. I step on the ants every time I walk outside my room. I look down and wander what to do; with every step I make, I kill some of them. For they’re everywhere, it’s impossible to walk in between their trails.
I can kill them slowly, every time I step into the world, or in one shot — spray the hell out of them with a pesticide. This way or another, I have those two choices in which they’ll die, or I can simply stay in my room. |
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Study of an Accident
2019–2020 Concrete, plaster, pigment, iron rebars, |
NOTA BIOGRÁFICA
Netai Halup’s (b.1991) body of work explores the possible performativity that sculptures can manifest. Through the use of organic and industrial materials, he creates precarious compositions that are held by the force of tension and balance.i Theatre and poetry take a major role in Halup’s installations, and thus gives context to his sculptural language. The works revolve around the materials’ potentialities to act as “bodies” — as characters — that perform poetic relationships within the installations.Tension is a main element in the environments Halup is creating; it may be physical, poetic, or as a subject matter. The notion of tension is the common ground that conjoins all the layers in Halup’s work. His practice looks further into how tension can be manifested as visual poetry, and expressed through different sculptural events. In that sense, his assemblages investigate the possibilities in which precariousness, resistance, subtlety, and tension can appear together as theatrical situations.
Halup's work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries around Barcelona such as Galería Carles Tache, Galería àngels, and Espronceda, where he exhibited his solo exhibition as part of 'Art Nou' festival 2019. He was one of the finalists in BIG awards 2018 and has received a grant to take part in Nectar AIR program. He founded 'Pujós Studios' in 2017, art studios and exhibition space for art and critical thinking. Halup holds an advanced diploma in visual arts from Metafora International Art School, Barcelona. Today Netai Halup is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and works in Artport as part of the grant he received for the Spring Artist in Residence Program.
Halup's work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries around Barcelona such as Galería Carles Tache, Galería àngels, and Espronceda, where he exhibited his solo exhibition as part of 'Art Nou' festival 2019. He was one of the finalists in BIG awards 2018 and has received a grant to take part in Nectar AIR program. He founded 'Pujós Studios' in 2017, art studios and exhibition space for art and critical thinking. Halup holds an advanced diploma in visual arts from Metafora International Art School, Barcelona. Today Netai Halup is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and works in Artport as part of the grant he received for the Spring Artist in Residence Program.
