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artist statement

artist statement

In my main body of works I engage in drawing and painting in ink and mixed technique on paper, in varying sizes, as well as drawing-based video art and installations. Different series of work intertwine and interconnect, often expressing political questions through enigmatic personal imagery.

In recent years, using a blue thermotransfer pencil, I meticulously draw objects and places that hold layers of significance and memories, but not necessarily mine. This ongoing series started in 2020 with a collaborative social-based art project in the Arab city of Umm El Fahem and has been a recurring tool in my practice since. The color blue is a device to reference the finicky nature of personal and cultural memory, reverberating recollections of blue carbon paper,  blueprints or memories of foreign places frozen in pastoral delft chinaware. Over the years, the drawings have accumulated and, becoming akin to "found objects" from my own drawers, they are reborn in different forms and patterns, seeping and morphing into a variety of projects such as videos and installations.

As I draw an object or scene, I am attentive to its visible and underlying facets. What stories does it tell? Who am I to tell that story? Am I appropriating someone else's memories or retelling them? Does drawing it bring me closer to some hidden truth or does it remain a mere representation? 

Often my work is layered with techniques and meanings, as in the dairy cows series where actual imagery and allegory are combined. The cows reference my autobiography as a teenager on a kibbutz in Israel, and my empathy towards those creatures, but the paintings also relate to the way excessive  global industrialism causes humans to exploit animals, nature and fellow human beings for capitalistic gain. These are paintings are executed on thin xuan paper, incorporating cow milk, ink and acrylic.

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