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Miri Segal // Whatever You Say
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  Miri Segal Born (1965) and lives in Israel. Recent solo exhibitions: PS1, New York (2001), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Gottesdiener Prize exhibition, 2002), Lisson Gallery, London (2004), Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris (2006), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2007); recent group exhibitions: Palazzo Reale, Milan (2006), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2008).

In Miri Segal’s installation, an image of a parrot is projected onto two adjacent walls. As it hops from side to side, the parrot occasionally repeats one of the sentences uttered by installation viewers, shouting it out loud. Once again, Segal invites her viewers to actively participate in the work. In this case, she presents them with anaudiovisual mirror effect that combines the myths of Echo and Narcissus in a high-tech mise en abyme. In this work Segal, whose video installations are concerned with perception and cognition, continues to explore the limits of our ability to perceive concrete reality, as well as abstract cognitive concepts.