Autobiofashionography: A Confession and One Dress – Of Three Dramatic Disrobings and Their Fateful Consequences
Gertman’s actions in this performance all revolve around her dress. As she recounts her personal stories, Gertman unzips her white dress and pulls out various pieces of clothing and jewelry, creating an incessant, alternating sequence of dressing and undressing, covering and revealing.
February 2003
EVELILITH: A Fashion Show
Presented in a fashion show format, the performance features Gertman herself “modeling” outfits which she wears and takes off. The outfits combine familiar pieces of clothing with unwearable materials: metals, paper, bamboo, polyester, etc. the complex visual images are supplemented with a textual layer. The result is a scenario that fuses collective mythical experience with a personal, diary-like dimension, in an attempt to create a lively, untamed fictional self.
MAY 2004
You Know, Danny
As his student, Hadas Gertman had a close relationship with Zakhem. A few months after she gave birth and began to devote herself to mothering, Gertman prepared lists of sentences she had used in order to describe to Zakhem her everyday routines. The sentences were written on pieces of cloth which ended up as a quilt (“the poetry of everyday life,” in Gertman’s terms), expressing Gertman’s preoccupation with questions of creativity in art and in life.
