Inbar Hagai is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose process-and-research-based practice combines video, virtual reality, sculpture, installation, and experimental documentary filmmaking. Her long-term projects often meander through a sequence of narrative rabbit holes, blurring the boundaries between documentation and fantasy, staged and happenstance. This hybrid ethos is used to transgressively reflect on social conventions (and their subsequent taboos) around interspecies cohabitation and domination within human-machine-nonhuman animal relationships, libidinal desires, spatial actuality, and mass media. A sense of futility is a recurring motif in her works, often accompanied by tongue-in-cheek humor that arises from the persistent pursuit of a doomed mission.
Inbar Hagai (b. 1992) gained her BFA with honors from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She additionally studied in the class of Christian Jankowski, in Stuttgart, Germany, as part of a student exchange program. She received numerous academic and institutional awards, production grants, and fellowships, with her work featured in both print and digital publications. Hagai’s video works, films, and media installations have been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Tomayko Foundation, Miller ICA Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Center for Digital Art Holon, Hamidrasha Gallery Tel Aviv, Hecht Museum Haifa, Manifesta 11, and in film and media festivals such as PrintScreen, DocAviv, NMFF, RIFF, and On Art Warsaw.
Inbar Hagai’s residency at NARS is made possible by the support of Artis, an independent, contemporary art organization based in NY.
And partially contributed by The General Consulate of Israel, NY.
