Artist & Curator

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Artist's Statement

I work with several media; oil paintings, drawing, poetry and video art. 

The place where I live, is present in all of them. My home is a piece of land on the edge of the desert in the Western Negev.

 Among the oil paintings are themes that have accompanied me for years but in every period treated from a different perspective.

Negev landscapes begin as quick sketches that attract my eye along the Negev pathways. Then, in my workshop, I translate them into oil paintings. Thus, the landscapes do not belong to any concrete place. They spring from my imagination like radio waves to become a landscape in the eye of the beholder which raises the question: - Place; what is it?

A series on the visualization of dunes as banks of sand and, at the same time. individual granules to create a dialogue between the mass and the individual; or grains of sand that become stitches in the handy work of the fabric of reality.

A series dealing with the memory of place that uses quotations from cultures that were on this land where I live, paint stains that flow like blood and broken pottery pieces to remind us that there were working hands here throughout history.

Another series is in which I try to explain to myself the ways a person perceives and analyzes reality. In this series I draw ideas and even discuss topics related to the philosophical basis of science.

In all of them, as if in a tapestry of oil painting embroidered on canvas, the views, pain, thoughts and historical memory rise and are gathered to my contemporary place in this region.