Cores, 2023

Ancient fragments are treated and represented in two new series that deal with transitions between two- and three- dimensions while transfiguring form and material. In the series Cast Paintings I cast my old paintings in a concrete mold while intentionally damaging the cast. The fragments created are restored so that the buried painting is represented as an object. In the series Sliceds I map fragments of archeological pottery that have been scientifically restored and transform them into wax paintings on textile. This act turns the actuality of the object into a flat, two-dimensional representation, empty as a peel. The findings, which come from the Tel Assor’s excavation in the fields of moshav Ein Iron, where I live and work, have been studied and are presented by the Institute for Archeology at Haifa University, where I am a student (MFA). The exhibition is based on a geographic, conceptual, and personal connection and continues my preoccupation with the issue of place. Remains of reality on which I applied archeological practices of destruction and restoration, covering and revealing, become capsules of memories created as a new type of object/painting.