Over the past decade, the New York-based, Israeli artist Uri Aran has been exploring the tropes of manipulation in confined social circumstances. He famously created a faux hospital for the city’s inaugural Frieze Art Fair, where his friends took on the roles of patients and doctors, and an exploration of power dynamics – understandings of what is public and private – quickly developed in a comical-cum-eery theatrical form. Another buzzed-about exhibit at Gavin Brown New…
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