Niv Fridman
b. 1996, Israel
Niv Fridman (b.1996, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his BFA graduate from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and his MA from The Royal College of Art in London. His works have been shown at the Tate Modern in London, The Jewish Museum in Munich, The Hecht Museum in Haifa, and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem and presented his video works at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, and the Beer Sheva Short Film Festival. Fridman’s artistic practice combines meticulous historical research with the artistic freedom to weave imaginary stories and to reveal gay and queer motifs hidden beneath the surface. Creating details across every stage of his artistic process, from sewing costumes, writing texts, editing, and post-production, Fridman’s uses disguise to shed new light on archival documents and raise questions about the heterosexual point of view and the manner in which it shapes history. His works challenge the accepted differentiations between truth and fiction, past and present, reality and imagination.