silence- from “planted” series
Planted - My most developed series is called “Planted”. The common denominator of this body of work is the starting point of my choice to reuse old paintings - portraits, landscape and still-lifes, works that I have done in the past. Around these existing paintings I tailor a narrative to the ”characters”, a plot that is completely new to the creation of the early painting. The portraits are of real people that I have painted from observation but the whole scene in which I ‘plant’ the portraits is invented, fabricated. The characters are inserted into a story that is not theirs, moving between different possibilities of reality.
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silence
Growing in israel along the on going processed israeli narrative, overshadowing the palestinian developing narrative, I know that parents grief and sadness is the only story that stays the same.
I believe that art is a unique communication channel, through which we are openly exposed to ideas we might otherwise block or be blocked of. But could – and if so, how - should art be utilized to ask questions and raise awareness? What is the most effective way? An image with a clear orientation? Where we tend to identify the “them and us” or perhaps, it is exactly so a generated image that can evoke our most human and private feelings and from there authentic and pure thought will follow.
* attached are small studies previous to the final work
**in the studies the same portraits are duplicated with a small printed version
***in the final work i used the original oil paintings (portraits)