Space-Object Relationships deal with the way objects occupy, shape, and influence the space around them, as well as how space affects the way they are perceived. These relationships are expressed in the creation of a free space for dialogue between entities, the diffusion of materials in volume, and gravitational influences that warp spacetime itself.
[AI review of the question: “What are Space-Object Relationships?”]
The exhibition Recently 2023–2026 is presented following an artist residency by Drora Dominey at the Benyamini Ceramic Art School. This program is a collaboration between the Ceramic Art School (director: Ravit Lazer) and the Benyamini Gallery. The exhibition offers an opportunity to look at Drora Dominey’s works from a different perspective and to address the transformations in her creative activity in recent years.
Drora Dominey’s starting points, as a senior and award-winning artist, are deeply rooted in the Constructivism and Deconstructivism of the 20th century (Dalit Matityahu, Dalia Manor, 2022). Dominey is a sculptor who ‘tames’ materials of various kinds, especially wood, metal, and their derivatives—with an impressive level of execution and precision. Her art crosses the boundaries between sculpture and functional object, creating a broad and deceptive twilight zone between art and design, between the crude and improvised and the planned and meticulous.
Her artistic language does not distinguish between the object and the space. Her work goes beyond the approach of site-specific work, according to her the object and the space are one, as if made for each other.
Over the years, Dominey has used clay to create three-dimensional models, some as a small three-dimensional model as part of the work process, and some as part of a multi-stage preparation for bronze casting.
A few years ago, a change occurred in her approach to ceramic materials, and she began firing the objects she created, as clay sculptures. She testifies about this change: “Ceramic material interests me through an exploration of ‘leaving a mark’ on it. I am interested in its reaction to contact with the human body.”
The exhibition Recently 2023–2026 features work from the last three years, charged and complex times in Israeli society. These are difficult and violent years that undermine social norms in a destructive deconstructive way. This is a moment in time to re-examine personal ethos versus national; freedom versus formalism and love versus death.
In the exhibition, Dominey exposes the free, loose, and experimental side of her work.
Even in the space of improvisation and intuitive exploration, the interplay between the objects and the space creates a sense of meticulous precision. A sketch, a found object, or a sculptural object are located exactly where they are meant to be. Dominey examines her relationship with the given space once again, and her gaze is now directed toward the studio: toward material processes that have not ended and may never end. She does not bring forth a still life, but rather a living still.
Curator: Shlomit Bauman
Opening: Saturday, 2.5.2026, 11:00
Gallery talk: Friday, 5.6.2026, 11:30
Closing: Saturday, 13.6.2026, 14:00
