MADANSKY

For thirty years I have been making drawings, paintings, 16mm films and videos. My films integrate hybrid forms and traditions including autobiography, experimental tropes, cinema verité, scripted narrative, ethnographic observation and dance and performance, engaging with cultural and political themes, such as identity, nationalism, the transgression of borders, displacement, nuclear arms and war, foregrounding the human experience and personal testimony. I am interested in portraying the consequences of politics on the daily lives of individuals, focusing on issues of US foreign intervention while interrogating the concept of personal responsibility and national accountability. My drawings and paintings are abstract, each series delineating the evolution of ideas, explorations and obsessions. Some work interrogates personal and political themes - shame, torture, the body, other work is diaristic, a type of automatic writing, repetitious markings of a subliminal landscape, notations..