Johan Wijesinghe
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This multimedia exhibition on Israeli dancer, choreographer, and textile artist Noa Eshkol (1924–2007) featured a five-channel film installation, photographs of spherical models from the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation system, and a selection of Eshkol’s carpets, scores, and drawings. The films showed dancers performing Eshkol’s choreography against backdrops of her carpets, which inspired Escher GuneWardena’s exhibition design: freestanding vertical wall panels, angled to guide viewers’ movement through the space.
Archival materials were displayed in sculptural, geometric vitrines, creating a spatial choreography that emphasized form and repetition rather than chance, unlike earlier projects such as Lunch Break. The installation not only framed the works but staged a dialogue between Sharon Lockhart’s precise filmmaking and Eshkol’s minimalist movement systems.
I contributed to the design and execution of the exhibition across venues including Vienna, LACMA in Los Angeles, and New York
Tartners
Ravi GuneWardena, Frank Escher
Project Team
Sasha Plotkinova, Cristiano Aires Teixeira, Johan Wijesinghe
Ravi GuneWardena, Frank Escher
Project Team
Sasha Plotkinova, Cristiano Aires Teixeira, Johan Wijesinghe