A Station in Time 2021 / Group Exhibition

Exhibition of the First Studio Graduates for 2020-21 at The Small Gallery: Ori Shifrin Anavi, Gal Kuflik, Zohar Sally

Curator: Ravit lazer

Opening:  Thursday, 09/09/21, 18:00-22:00

Closing:  Saturday, 16/10/21, 14:00

The first studio scholarship invites the winners on a professional, human, and material adventure.  The one-year residency enables in depth understanding of working with clay, technology research and learning about managing a studio, amongst other possibilities.  The exposure to exhibitions, a professional library and theoretical program as well as the close encounter with the professional practicing teaching team and artist residents gives them insight to various teaching methods, thought and creative processes. This year was a particularly challenging year due to lockdown and the war and despite this, Ori, Gal and Zohar managed to create a new body of work that shows the beginning of processes and fascinating directions for them.

Zohar Sally, a graduate of HIT Industrial Design Department, Holon Institute of Technology: Zohar, as a designer, focuses on the connection between clay and technological accepted work methods.  The works she is exhibiting show the beginning of research which required developing a three-dimensional template for extrusion which creates   a hollow object with a 3-dimensional wall emphasizing organic movement. In the beginning Zohar created the template through 3D planning, design and printing and is now producing the template using metal turning and hand-cutting with technical precision that allow variety using different templates.

Gal Kuflik, A graduate of the Industrial Design Department, Bezalel Art and Design Academy: Is it possible to maintain movement in an inanimate material? To clarify this question Gal designed objects using a 3D program that during the design process are influenced by various forces such as gravitation, magnetic force, weight, wind, etc.  From this she proceeded to print models and make plaster molds for casting clay, a technique that she learnt during the residency at the Benyamini Center as well as working in the studio ABS Objects.  In the project that Gal is exhibiting she examines the definition of freedom in the modern world and asks question about limits of this freedom: does it exist? Are we in control? Her visual language is influenced by nature and organic forms, voluptious and feminine, growing and forming, planned and spontaneous, as is the nature of the digital world.

Ori Shifrin Anavi, a graduate of the Industrial Design Department, Shenkar Engineering. Design. Art: Ori presents three series: The first series deals with the plaster mold which traditionally is used to create a series of works.  In this group of works Ori relates to the plaster mold as a dynamic and changeable object. He breaks and chisels out parts from the block of plaster which allows for the change and development of a new object each time. This aesthetic gives the feeling of handmade as well as his design and material decisions.  In the second series he uses clay slabs to create cylindrical vessels with a gradient of color using the color of the material itself.  The colored clay and their combinations as well as the treatment of the surface create an interesting and intriguing variety.  The third series is a sculptural tribute to the designer Yaakov Kaufman, who in 2010 had an exhibition “Shunra” at the Comics Museum in Holon where he showed 3000 illustrations of cats.  Ori’s cats are clues and memories of resting positions of cats captured in a glimpse like 3D brush strokes or paint squeezed out of a tube, amorphic and unbridled. On a second look, examining the details, there are clear references to the animal and its many expressions.