The Lady of the White City

Video, 8:40 minutes 

2020

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The Lady of the White City is an experimental video work developed for the exhibition Helpful as Administering Medication to the Dead, curated by Yulia Yablonski and Hadas Keidar at Studio-Bank, Tel-Aviv (2020).

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The work is composed of excerpts from the newsreel archives Moledet and Carmel by Nathan Axelrod (1927–1958), alongside a fictionalised vocal reconstruction of Zina Dizengoff performed by a voice artist.

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The only surviving archival images of Zina Dizengoff appear in her funeral procession. Building on these fragments, the work constructs a monologue based on her biography, in which her voice is reimagined and performed, allowing her to narrate her own story from within a fragmented historical perspective on the early development of the Yishuv and the city of Tel-Aviv.