Opening in September, Cornered, a solo exhibition by Anat Keinan, brings together a curated selection of works in the ZAZ10TS lobby, accompanied by a special video presentation on the building’s digital billboards (ZAZ Corner) for a limited run.
The exhibition reflects Keinan’s ongoing investigation into the charged geometry of the corner, both as a physical intersection and a psychological space. Through drawings, sculpture, and video documentation of her kinetic installation, she examines how these seemingly static points can confine, anchor, redirect, or invite movement, prompting viewers to consider their own bodies in relation to architectural structures and opening possibilities for shifts in perception and motion.
Keinan’s artistic approach is conceived from questions regarding the built environment, how places are inhabited and experienced, how they change over time, and an exploration of how space, body, and sculpture relationships can open positions of dialogue. She creates large-scale architectural installations that revolve around the human body in space, exploring how the architectural environment and physical objects shape our movement, stability, choreography, and emotions. In doing so, her work challenges and rethinks how the human body reacts to and is activated by material and tactile space, reimagining and deepening our understanding of the complexities of our shared world.
Her practice develops a distinct visual language that traverses sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, machinery, and kinetic objects. “My sculptures breathe, move, and dance like the human body,” she explains. “I think about the movement I want both the sculpture and the viewer to create in space, and ask, what are the aspirations of any given space?”
On view are graphite and charcoal works on paper, including Corner #1, Corner #2, and Corner #3 (all 2023), alongside mixed-media drawings such as Day 22, bridge, and two untitled works from 2023. Also featured are Tilted (2022), a cast iron sculpture, and Monad (2021–2022), a video of a motorized sculpture made from plywood, steel, gears, and hardware that moves in a circuit trajectory, revealing itself from shifting perspectives.