Deborah Sfez is an Israeli artist born in 1964, working in Israel and Cote D'Ivoire, focusing on the fields of Photography and Video in all their creative configurations. Deborah is considered a self-taught Artist. She studied...
Read More Deborah Sfez is an Israeli artist born in 1964, working in Israel and Cote D'Ivoire, focusing on the fields of Photography and Video in all their creative configurations. Deborah is considered a self-taught Artist. She studied French and English Literature in Haifa University, Fashion Design in Esmod Paris, and Scenery and Costume Design at Rakefet Levi school of Theater Design in Tel Aviv. She has been practicing the profession of Fashion Design and Theater Costume Design for over twenty years before she decided to concentrate exclusively on Art. Deborah has been exhibiting photography and video works in Israel, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, England, Korea and the U.S.A in the last six years, gained acknowledgment and wan several photography and art prizes. Her video work is archived in several Museums.
Deborah mainly focuses on the ups and downs of the human existence. She talks about the experience of existence, partnership, overcoming a sickness, fear of life, beauty of being a woman, the impossibility of being perfect and Identity. Photography, for her, means a creative research. She has started her photography research with a series of hundreds of self-portraits in many different characters using heavy makeup costumes and wigs to transform her looks. She started, later, using these various self-portraits in a more complex way as a part of larger photography or video Installations including text and sound written and composed by her.
