Roei Regev

Roei Regev (b. 1981) studied at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, lives in Haifa.

 

By creating structures in space and operating various media within them – lighting, sound, text and performance – I explore how art “talks” and how artistic structures enable communication.

 

I work as an artist, musician, designer and editor. For many years, I have collaborated with the artist Cynthia Madansky, the writer Adi Sorek, the filmmaker Avi Nesher and the artist and dance composer Noa Tzadaka. As a musician, I perform under the name Joseph & The Boys. I was the graphic editor of Haaretz magazine. I initiated and curated the exhibition The Land of the Illustrators (Dvir Gallery, 2019), which showed original newspaper illustrations from 1928 to the present.

 

The work Disappearance of a Table from the Meeting Room (2024) is a space in which literary and bureaucratic texts, revealed and concealed, act within a structure of sculptural objects-furniture with sound and light. The installation acts as a circulation system of the different languages it consists of and deals with notions of freedom, control and narrative.