All this can be reconstructed elsewhere

Nira Pereg spent the 90s in New-York, where she received her B.F.A from Cooper Union in New York USA. On her return to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel M.F.A studio program in Jerusalem, and has been teaching internationally ever since.

Pereg’s multichannel video installations challenge the status quo of any territory she immerses her self in. She anchors her work in documentary practice. However, in order to challenge the traditional role of the “real” versus the “artificial” Pereg developed her own language of editing in which a studio-produced soundtrack questions these images. She often employs multi-channel presentations to estrange the events from their origin and place them within the “real” exhibition space. This particular aesthetic intervention plays a crucial role in the work’s spacial presentation, and heightens a constant discomfort with “the way things are”. The merger of spirit and matter, as it coexists in public spaces of religious/political/military presence, serves as a platform for Pereg’s interest and involvement in the social manifestations and symptoms of structures that influence our lives.