OMER FAST exhibition opens at Postmasters on March 22

With greetings to all from Postmasters Gallery,
Magdalena Sawon

for immediate release:

march 22 - april 19, 2003
OMER FAST
opening reception: saturday, march 22, 6-8 pm

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of
two new video installations by Omer Fast. This will be the artist's
first solo show in New York after his work has been included in the
Whitney Biennial 2002 and more recently in numerous European museum
exhibitions (Witte de With in Rotterdam and Frankfurter Kunstverein
among others).
Through varied strategies of digital manipulation Fast's
video work explores the layers of the cinematic medium juxtaposing or
integrating personal narratives with public ones, drawing attention
to a fine line between documentary and fiction, memory, perception,
and history as reflected in the present moment in time.

A TANK TRANSLATED, 2002
Presented on four monitors, "A Tank Translated," compiles
footage of separate conversations with four crew members of an
Israeli Army tank. Each crew member (commander, driver, gunner and
loader) was interviewed separately after being released from the army
and asked about his perception of the environment he was in, both the
interior space of the tank which constitutes his unique working
environment