Night Skies
Maker
Moran, Meytar
Israeli, b. 1986
Date2017
MediumInkjet print
Dimensionsframe: 20 in x 15 1/2 in
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by the Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider Prize
Object number2017:324
Collections
About the ArtistMeytar Moran’s series, Declassified (2017), is a visual poem based on her study of a United States government archive of UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s. She incorporates photographs as well as found sketches and documents with her own medium format photographs, objects, and installations. The series explores notions of fascination around unsolved mysteries and raises questions about data stability and the reliability of archives. “When the public only has one source of technology to rely on, one feeder of information, there will always be room for doubt in the reliability of representation,” she states. “What lies behind the ‘unclassified’ images, the disregarded, the unstableness of represented places and specimens is what I am interested in.”- Maxine and Lawrence K. Snider Prize
Meytar Moran completed her BFA in Photography from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2013) and her MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2017). She is a runner up for the 2017 Snider Prize and winner of the Promising Artist Award. She has exhibited extensively around Israel, including at Grosso Modo Gallery, Tel Aviv (2024) and Multidisciplinary Art Festival, Jerusalem (2023), as well as internationally at Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University, New York, NY (2018) and Nowolipki Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2018).
