Tali Keren is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working across experimental documentary, performance, and installation. Her practice examines invisible mechanisms of empire, tracing how ideology materializes through law, infrastructure, and theology. Working with video, sound, archival research, and alternative mapping, she translates these systems into visual and narrative forms grounded in lived experience across human and more-than-human worlds alike. Rooted in collaboration, pedagogy, and cross-disciplinary dialogue, her work aims to forge new forms of collectivity and political imaginaries. Keren’s work has been shown at the Queens Museum, NY; The James Gallery, NY; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, among others. She is a 2023–2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2022 Artadia Award recipient and has received support from the Desert Humanities Institute and the Leonardo–ASU Planetary Health Research Seed Grant at Arizona State University for her current research. She is an inaugural artist-in-residence at ASU’s Water Institute, where she collaborates with hydrologists, climate scientists, and students.

During her residency at the Camargo Foundation, Keren will focus on her current in-progress trilogy, Water/Power, examining the entanglements of water infrastructures, ecologies, and colonial histories across the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Tracing desalination technologies as they circulate between regions, the project surfaces ecological consequences, political stakes, privatization, and the militarized and corporate powers embedded in the techno-utopian desire to “drink the sea.”

Photo by Rotem Lineal.