Omer Fast - The Invisible Hand

Omer Fast
The Invisible Hand
2019
Fine Art Print (framed), textile
28 x 20 cm
Ed 25 + 2 AP

Omer Fast (*1972 Jerusalem) is world-renowned for his films that blend fictional and documentary processes.
His films and installtions have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Times Museum in Guangzhou, China; Baltic Center of Contemporary Arts, UK; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands;  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Le Caixa, Madrid, Spain; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland; STUK Leuven, Belgium; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. His work was featured in dOCUMENTA (13), the 54th Venice Biennale, and the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials.

On the occasion of the solo exhibition „The oylem is a goylem“ at Salzburger Kunstverein, the edition „The invisible hand“ was published in the year 2019. It is referring to Fast’s Film „The invisible hand“, which depicts a family’s confrontation with a ghost in the Pearl River Delta, China.
The edition consists of a framed photography and a pillowcase with cutouts, which is hanging on the specially constructed grey frame. 

Works by Omer Fast are included in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Musuem of American Art in New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tate Modern, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands among others.