The body of work on display examines the artist’s persona through a series of self-portraits, constructed from historical, biographical, and material sources.
The artist reflects on her identity through personal, historical, and material references: old photographs of her grandmother in early-20th-century Tel Aviv, female painters active during that period who became key spiritual figures for her, and the study of pigments and minerals from which colors are born.
Some of the paintings depict frontal portraits inspired by photography, mirror observation, and acts of invention. In others, the image shifts away from the concrete portrait toward a surreal scene where face and landscape merge, and in others, the landscape dissolves into abstraction, and the painting becomes an inward gaze.
The titles of the works are based on the artist’s color palette. The “palette” is a unique painterly language in which recurring colors, their relationships, and the consistent sequence of tones function as the DNA of each artist’s painting. Here, the color names serve as an additional layer of self-portraiture by revealing the artist’s palette.