The Confessions of Roee Rosen

Book that accompanied Roee Rosen's exhibition “The Confessions of Roee Rosen"
at The CCA, Tel Aviv, curated by Sergio Edelsztein. The book was designed as a secret prayer book, around the text from the work Confessions. Confessions begins where Roee Rosen declares that now that he is about to die, he disavows a career replete with lies, scandals and fake identities, and joins the confessional tradition. These confessions, however, are delivered by three female surrogates—Roee Rosen 1, 2 and 3—illegal foreign workers residing in Israel. They deliver the monologues in Hebrew, a language they do not speak. The text is built as a hybrid: on the one hand, it offers a rather dubious account of the artist’s own “crimes,” but on the other hand, it is partially plausible as a monologue of a foreign worker.