Though I am a sculptress that needs a steady place; I have a Migrate studio.
With the Migrate studio I can go were ever I want and work in every land.
For the Migrate Studio I don't need to carry much: few packages of colourful
model-clay, a digital camera and a sheet of blue paper. In every new location,
I invite passer-bys to sit with me for a short while, in order to be portrayed
in the soft modeling-clay
However, the modeling-clay is a very fragile material; it can't be protected
from the tribulations of the travel. Therefore, I photograph the portraits,
and demolish the original ones. I recycle the modeling-clay for the next
sculptures in the next location.
What's left from the portraits is only 'Passport' like photos; a documentation
of a face with a particular and unique expression.
Through the years, I build up a collection of 'Pass-Portraits'. Some people
are familiar to me and some I will never see again; I don't know their names,
origin or backgrounds.
I ask myself: are they still recognizable? Can they be identified or personalized
by these 'pass-portraits' without direct access to their stories, or their
official documents?
Only one thing I know for sure; like the fragile sculptures, we are all having
only a temporary residency on this earth.
With my Migrate-Studio, I would like to join the Virtual-Residency. In every
location of the Virtual-Residency, I will make new Pass-Portraits and will
exhibit their photographic prints, or alternatively will just project them
on a monitor or screen in an ongoing loop.
Born 1974 Haifa, Israel
Working and living in Rotterdam, NL since 2001
2007 Work
Period in the EKWC (February-Mai) Europeans Ceramic
work centre S Hertogenbosch
2001-2003 Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy
Hogeschool
Rotterdam / Plymouth University of Arts and Education,
UK, MFA Diploma
2000 The School of Visual Art,
course design for stage, Jerusalem, Israel
1995-1999 Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem
Israel
Diploma BFA Graduated with Excellency
Solo & Group Exhibitions
- 2007 Art-store kunstambassade, Pictura, Dordrecht, NL
(group)
- 2007 Hangover, Sketch Gallery, Haifa, IL (group)
- 2006 Rotterdam(inter)nationaal kunstambassade
Rotterdam,
Groot Handelsgebouw Rotterdam, NL, (group)(catalog)
- 2006 Terror? Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco,
CA
(group)
- 2006 Feest, KoopKunst Gallerie, De Wereld
van Witte de
Withstraat, Rotterdam, NL (group)(catalog)
- 2006 Open Draw, Open Source Art, Campaign,
Illinois
(group)
- 2005 Dreaming.doc, Nora gallery, Jerusalem, IL
(solo)
- 2005 Displeasure city, Gallery Kibbutz
Rosh Hanikra,
IL (solo)
- 2005 Fire land, Galerie Dvergur, Reykjavik,
IC (solo)
- 2005 Made in Rotterdam, Gil & Moti
Homegallery,Rotterdam,
(Exhibition organized by museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
and galleries in Rotterdam), NL (group)
- 2005 Open Kamer, Studio presentation,
collaborated
project with the writer Florimond Wassenaar, Rotterdam,
NL (duo)
- 2004 Highspot, Gil & Moti
Homegallery, De wereld van
Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam, NL (group)
