Trained as a photographer, a plastic artist, and as an industrial designer, my work in the field of visual arts revolves around the intersection between sculpture and photography, with a particular emphasis on the human body.

I relate in my practice to photography as a twofold medium: although my works are based on images, they are treated and sometimes presented as sculptures. I use different materials to allow the onlookers’ imagination to perceive pictures as three-dimensional objects –challenging the way in which we usually relate to photography.

I photograph bodies. Since my early days as an artist, I became particularly fascinated by the limitless possibilities of capturing unusual body positions. Wo(man)-object combinations and blunt nakedness which, once arranged, assembled, even engineered, take the body out of its original context, allowing me to play with ideas of sexual identity, of the masculine and the feminine.

My longing to revert the photographic process, to bring body images back to the realm of the living, led me to embark on the search of different visual effects, traditional and modern techniques, and materials. This was a journey for what I denominate “the ultimate photographic material”–a surface, a type of paper, a rare ink that could help me transform these images into artifacts or even our own skin. Sculpture-like framed pictures were soon followed by photographs printed on different types of fabrics, and later on by three dimensional photographic objects. As part of this journey, I decided to embark on a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design. The expertise and experience I acquired during these two years allowed me to expand even more the techniques I use in my practice, and to realize the process I was longing for, transposing pictures into the human flesh.

In this way, my art aims to challenge basic preconceptions of what photography should be. In my creations pictures can be touched, dressed, used as filters; bodies can be worn; connecting in a single piece the digital and the human; allowing me to explore a changing world of sexual and gender identities, and creating a unique experience for viewers.

My work has been presented in 5 solo exhibitions and 8 group exhibitions, and my latest performance work “Wearing Photography,” where I show the the process of body print photography, was presented at the Jerusalem Art Conference at the Van Leer Institute (2019), the Holon Museum of Design (2020) and at the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation (2020).

I hold a BFA from the Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem (2014); I completed an exchange program at the Mixed Media Department at The Slade School of Fine Art in London (2013); and I recently obtained a Masters in Design also at Bezalel (2019). In May of 2020, I became a gallery artist at Rosenfeld Gallery.

EDUCATION

2019 Master of Industrial Design, Bezalel Art and Design Academy, Jerusalem

2014 BFA in Photography, Bezalel Art and Design Academy, Jerusalem

2013 Exchange program, Mixed Media Department, Slade School of Fine Art, London

EXHIBITIONS

Lecture Performances

2020 Design Museum Holon “State of Extremes,” “Wearing Photography.”

2020 The Israeli Center for Digital Art “Graduation Exhibition” M.D.S “Free Standing Image”.

2020 Edmond de Rotschild foundation “Costume party,” “Image: Prêt-à-Porter.”

2020 Bezalel’s Photography Department, Annual Conference on the Topic of Identity.

2019 The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem Art Conference, “Wearing Photography.”

Solo exhibitions

2019 Bezalel Photography Gallery (Jerusalem). "Anesthetic" Curator: Ilanit Konpny.

2018 Idris Gallery (Tel Aviv)."Still Early For Sunset"

2017 Rosenfeld Gallery (Tel Aviv). "Composing a Portrait" Curator: Adi Goldner.

2016 Gabirol Gallery (Tel Aviv). "Mothership/Tilon".

2015 Gabirol Gallery (Tel-Aviv). "Two-way Mirror".

Group exhibitions

2020 Raphael Hospital Gallery “The body in art, the art as body” Curator: Sharon Tuval

2020 Rosenfeld Gallery (Tel Aviv) “Ground Control” Curator: Maya Frenkel Tene

2020 Edmond de Rotschild foundation “Costume party” Curator: Studio89

2019 Hadassah Academic College (Jerusalem). “Point Cloud” Curator: Galit Shvo

2018 MOM ART SPACE (Hamburg)."Mixed Chromosome" Curator: Avi Lubin.

2017 MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art (Krakow). "Poland-Israel" Curator: Mayyan shelf.

2017 Rosenfeld Gallery (Tel Aviv). "SUMMER 2017". Curator: Adi Goldner.

2015 Rosenfeld Gallery (Tel Aviv). "Power of attraction". Curator: Adi Goldner.

2014 Museum of Photography at Tel Chai."Graduates of the Advanced Schools for Photography"

2013 BFA Program Graduation Exhibition (London), Slade School of Fine Art.

PROFESSIONAL

2016-2020

Art Director, Israeli television (Channels Keshet, Reshet, HOT, and YES) –including work on drama tv shows, reality shows and studio programs. Studio design for Channel 20.

2012-2015

Art Director, documentaries and tv commercials ("A History of Israeli Comics," Family Picture," "Golstar," "Galis," and more).

Art consulting and set design; built visual environments according to production specifications.

Set Dresser for film and TV production companies (Dori Media, Antenna Productions, Andimol). Directed a crew under an intensive shooting schedule while maintaining tight deadlines and managing large budgets.

AWARDS

2014 Robert Schmilowitz Bromide Photography Award.

2015 Aharon Dovrat Excellence Award for Originality, Creativity, and Innovation.