YIFAT GAT
Yifat Gat, born in 1969 in Israel, is a painter, blogger and curator living in the South of France.
Gat studied Theater Design at the TLV University and Fine Arts at the Midrasha University. She received the Keren Sheret Award as well as the french SACD Multimedia Award in 2004. After moving to France in 2007, she received a studio from the village of Saint-Chamas in 2009 and has been working there ever since. In 2010 she started her curatorial blog LOOK&LISTEN that grew into a larger scale non-profit project in 2013.
Yifat Gat’s work aims to highlight the mechanisms that form it, rather than its appearances. Gat works mainly on canvas, papers and walls. Her work has been exhibited in France, New York City, Tel Aviv and numerous European venues in the UK, Sweden, Italy, Belgium etc.
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Coloured up
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It’s a wrap!
2018 is a wrap and it’s time to say thank you for a year full of exciting projects! I feel really really lucky that I’m able to work with so many great people and institutions around the world. I performed 35 times across 7 countries, spent 10 weeks creating (and restaging) 5 different works with...Continue Reading
The Unfinished Dance
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Oh the pinkness!
Julia Gat made this gorgeous trailer of Duo #5, a site specific project created for and performed during Montpellier Danse 2017. Working with a clear framework of rules and tasks, the idea of Emanuel Gat’s DUOS was to place real time choreography in a public space. It was an opportunity for the audience to catch...Continue Reading
Vignale Monferrato Festival 2017
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