Agents

Chemist is excited to present ‘Agents’, a new collaborative installation by Artists Miriam Naeh and Kineret Lourie

About
‘Agents’ is a multi-channel video, sound and sculptural installation, reimagining a forgotten play by the same name through the lens of absurd theatre, existential role-play and social media. The original play, a one act piece of avant-garde Yiddish theatre, follows four life insurance agents on a third-class train who, after attempting to sell policies to one another, gradually realise they all share the same profession. Naeh and Lourie build on the absurd collapse of these futile selling attempts, pushing the four agents beyond their original functions and ambitions. Their reimagined agents, stripped of their original, now dysfunctional, roles as salesmen, are transcending into mediums, lovers, philosophers, ghosts.