Jester Lux
Karam Natour
2021
An artist's book that includes a conversation between Natour and Jester – the artist’s “nonhuman collaborator” – and all the digital drawings created by Natour and Jester between 2014 and 2020. Edited by Nicola Trezzi, Mona Benyamin, and Guy Bernard Reichmann, and designed by Field-Day Studio, it features content in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
- Copies: 800
- Pages: 380
- Type of binding: soft PVS cover
- Dimensions (cm): 27X20
- Publication: Self-Published
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
- ISBN: 9789655995343
Karam Natour, born in 1992 in Nazareth, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Has a BFA from the Department of Screen-Based Arts and a MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. His works deal with the connection between the mystical and the political worlds, and with the body and identity as fluid entities. He works through characters that accompany his work and takes on historical, cultural and social journeys. He creates in the mediums of video and digital recording. Natur is a lecturer in the Department of Screen-Based Arts in Bezalel. He has exhibited in many exhibitions and won awards including the 2019 Young Video Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and the 2020 Anselm Kiefer Prize from the Wolf Foundation.
