TAU Genia Schreiber Art Gallery site specific video installation 09:16 min 2024 This work was created through a dialogue between artist Lee Yanor and scientist Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Burtal (Department of Psychology and Department of Brain Sciences), a researcher of empathy, social biases, and prosocial behavior. It is a development of a prior piece ("Suspended I"), which the artist produced during an artist residency at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2023. Here, Yinor focuses on aspects of human connection, memory, and the processes of giving and receiving empathy. Her dialogue with Dr. Burtal explored the characteristics of empathy as a behavior rooted in a shared biological basis among animals and humans. Yinor’s work invites us on a journey of discovery and approaching understanding. Yinor integrates brain scans from Burtal’s laboratory into her work, reflecting the state of neurons during helping behaviors. Under her touch, these scans transform into star maps—galaxies of empathy.

I asked the choreographer Pina Bausch to film a solo of her hands, movements that are neither dance nor speech—simple gestures creating an intimate dialogue: quiet, shy, painful, explosive, smiling, changing, musical, without beginning or end. Special exhibit Curator Dr. Gilad Reich The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2024

2016-2023, site specific video installation 12:12 min. I WISH comprises six videos that are effectively six windows and, like a pendulum, swings between words and movement, body and emotion on an empty black stage-like space where performative actions take place. Difficult to define precisely, it is like a performance of forms moving endlessly between photography, poetry and dance. I WISH evolves from words, which sometimes converge in short sentences that Lee Yanor collected and grouped into small notebooks. Collections of words that can begin a story, which she shared with creators from the fields of dance, choreography and theater as a proposal for dialog between the mouth and bodily gestures. Featuring: Talia Paz, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mike Winter, Barbara Kaufmann, Ruth Amarante Editing: Mariana Bhousira & Ifat Tadmor Original Music: NORSCQ

Filmed in the ruins of Eden, Tel Aviv’s first cinema and premiered in November 2019 at the Tony Cragg Foundation as a site-specific, three-channel video-installation and performance. Featuring Ruth Amarante, Editing Mariana Bouhsira & Ifat Tadmor, Music NORSCQ.

Filmed in the ruins of Eden, Tel Aviv’s first cinema and premiered in November 2019 at the Tony Cragg Foundation as a site-specific, three-channel video-installation and performance. Featuring Ruth Amarante, Editing Mariana Bouhsira & Ifat Tadmor, Music NORSCQ.

Vanishings & Farewells 5 HD video installation April 13 th , to May 16 th , 2019 Danysz gallery 78 rue Amelot Paris With the participation of Maria Salomaa; Editing Mariana Bouhsira , Ifat Tadmor; Original music Phil Von ……” Multiple projections:  of Lee Yanor, (Israel, participated in the previous exhibition "Fucking Beautiful") a series of five films in loop, the title of the series is Vanishings & farewells (2018-2019) but each film is contemplated for himself. More than ever, we feel how demanding and generous is the art of video: it certainly requires the spectator`s time, but in return offers thousands of images and a new perception of the world. As in poetry, here the emotion is. It is plural and memorial, melancholic, sensual, absurd, dreamlike: Moving women, all along.” ART CRITIQUE 404

And Now - Solo exhibition at Zemack Contemporary Art 10 May - 15 June 2018 Curator: Netta Eshel A Letter to Lee “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” – Donald W. Winnicott Through this encounter, you generously allow me to take part in the formulation of your own story, sprawling out into the gallery space. Here, the two video works are projected in an intimate space and fuse into one piece. Thoughts about connections and disconnections in your work stem from your actual working process: you extract images from your video works and you freeze their movement, allowing the viewer to linger just a little more, to control time. “…as spectator: I decompose, I enlarge, and, so to speak, I retard, in order to have time to know at last.” - Roland Barthes The suspension of the moment is carried out without the ability to predict any final outcome; like the student from the Zen story who tries to paint a sea wave and only reaches perfect accuracy at the point of release – when in a moment of frustration, he throws the brush at the wall. The freed movement summoned the outcome that felt right to him. This is how I understand the creation process of the large emulsion works, developed in a dark room where you disconnect from time and reality. You grasp the moment just like the hand that sometimes succeed in catching a flower but fails to retain the particles of memory. The image’s creation process in full darkness unveils and reveals a photograph that is unique in its essence, existing independently of any sequence. “The photographic image is full, crammed: no room, nothing can be added to it.” “Motionless, the Photograph flows back from presentation to retention.” - Roland Barthes When I connect your works from different periods into a journey through the gallery space, I discover that your language hasn’t changed. It is continuous, like the reading of Roland Barthes’ book that you have lent me, marked like a road map full of arrows pointing to your path. I draw a line between Pina Bausch’s Hands Solo – a new video piece created out of an early work, Coffee With Pina – to the hands in your latest piece And Now, failing to hold on to grains of sand. The image of the hands brings to mind the works of Gabriel Orozco and Richard Serra: a hand can hold time and produce new material forms, it can get wounded in its attempt to grasp metal objects, and it can let go of the sand gleaming in the light of an artificial moon. Perhaps through this movement we will feel the sand entering our eyes and let go of our yearning for perfect vision. In that precise moment of yielding and stepping out of the limits of reason, we start seeing all that we have been hiding; a ghost bursts out from within, the familiar becomes foreign, the line between imagination and reality gets blurred, clearing the way for the return of the repressed. I go back to the opening text: Winnicott's statement about the artist torn between the need to communicate and the need to be hidden instigated my desire to create a lexicon of my own fragments, from my own worlds; fragments that are both luminous and hidden, and connect to your unique and inspiring world. A world in which the body expresses the secret language of the soul. Netta Eshel, Curator, May 2018

And Now - One Time Event - Suzanne Dellal Hall, Tel Aviv 2018 One time event at Varda Studio Suzanne Dellal Center Video-installation and performance :With the participation of Zina Zinchensko and Lior Tamim And now, in the silence that follows the fall, when there is no more heartbeat to be heard, we linger in the dark and our gaze turns inwards. The emptiness we feel in the aftermath of the two works, ONLY ONE STORY / AND NOW, is gorged with a sense of past and impending doom. We find ourselves floating both within and outside time. The two video works sweep us into a heightened viewing experience, as two women run and fall repeatedly in the circle of their own lives, attempting to simultaneously catch and release past memories and recurring moments of loneliness within their present. Will our experience be the same in some other time, at some other place?