b. 1976
Born: Israel
Active ceramist: 24 years
Mentor/s: Stephan Agai Z”L
Why clay?
In my work as a contemporary artist I explore a range of characteristics of materials: earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, as well as a continuing conceptual dialogue with my personal history. This history references the Iranian and Turkish cultural codes and design codes on which my childhood was based and which made up my world. This is the starting point of my deliberations on serial multiplicity, material duplicates, peelings, fragile organics, and elegant massiveness, disassembling and reassembling of images and testing of new constructive limits. These limits formulate a different conceptual statement which responds to research of human culture and social behaviors and conservatism, through expression which stretches the inherent material limits, which emanates from it and formulates through it a reaction of acceptance, presence or maybe resistance and disruption.
What do I want to convey?
As a researching artist I have a need to give a personal expression and personal interpretation to the cultural-human research that fascinates me, here in the close prosaic places of the society and environment in which I move, and there in the Persian mythological places to which my soul yearns. The thesis which accompanies the maximalist creation explores researches and examines life situations, the dynamics of one’s environment, society and culture and material processes. I often reflect on the concept of Home, Person and Place.
What characterizes my work process?
I start by writing up the idea, the concept and the research. Then comes the planning stage, the data processing and sketches in my artist book and only then the transition to execution. I would say that what characterizes me most, my work and the process in the studio it’s the essence of Infinity. The potential for ongoing activity extended building which has no end, as well as the expanding optional extremities of the creation itself. I think that as far as I am concerned, the essential and most challenging part in the work process itself is the decision when to strike the closing accord.
My tools of choice… Can’t create without them:
Rekab paintbrushes and my sketchbook
Absolutely necessary in my working environment
A window filled with light, music and coffee
