The exhibition Reblend by artist Noa Chernichovsky is a reflective personal journal of the urban environment. This new body of work, created especially for the Small Gallery, investigates the relationships between the human, the city, and clay. Chernichovsky documents material encounters and everyday compositions within these spaces, and through her interpretation she processes and transforms them into an installation of abstract objects that form an independent sculptural language.
Two forces operate within the exhibition. The first emerges from the constructed urban landscape: concrete elements such as bollards, sidewalks, roads, concrete fences, and temporary structures constitute the physical–visual components of the city. They convey a sense of heaviness, density, and grayness. Upon them accumulate oil stains, rust, cracks, and fractures—markers of time, erosion, and the fatigue of the built environment—symbols of an urban existence in which every contact leaves new shifts and material traces.
The second force arises from nature, from a kind of muted organic presence. These include wild plants breaking through pavement cracks (ma’azava), piles of fallen leaves, invasive parakeets and bat traces, community gardens, and domestic potted plants. For Chernichovsky, these elements represent the city’s breath—its color, its uncontrolled movement, its signs of life and renewal. The encounter between the hard urban material and the living elements forms a dialogue between control and wildness, between warmth and a cold touch, between what is artificial and what grows on its own.
Out of the accumulations of materials and objects in the street, and the accidental meetings between urban surfaces and discarded matter, Chernichovsky creates a visual language. Her works are made of ceramic, paper, textile, mesh, and wood, through which she sketches blurred boundaries between new and old, perishable and lasting, personal and collective, planned and accidental.
Rather than presenting isolated works, the artist constructs a layered installation composed of heaps, accumulations, and junctions between her artworks and found elements from the urban environment. The installation draws on compositions she identifies in the city and translates into the gallery space, allowing the works to integrate with objects collected from the street and generating a unified space without hierarchy between the original and the found, the artificial and the incidental.
On both sides of the gallery, a new scene unfolds, washing moments and materials into a complex spatial experience. Most of the sculptural works are based on molds she creates from objects encountered during her city wandering such as cauliflowers, bananas, avocados, or a carved picture frame. The artist reshapes their forms and textures within the sculptural space, re-blending the urban environment and reassembling it into a different image. The works are rough, their surfaces unpolished, producing a sense of wear; yet within this roughness opens a fantastical realm, where familiar connections appear alongside unexpected combinations. This choice of roughness underscores the authenticity of touch, the value of imperfection, and the material’s ability to carry the imprints of urban reality.
The exhibition offers an interpretation of space in which the city is not only an external environment but also an inner mirror of friction, erosion, and growth.
Noa Chernichovsky is an artist based in Tel Aviv. She holds an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, London (2021–2022), and a BA from the Ceramics and Glass Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2012–2016). She has exhibited in Israel and abroad, including in Spaceshifting at the Royal Society of Sculptors and ROSL Galleries, London, UK. Chernichovsky is a member of the editorial team of Textura, an online journal dedicated to material culture.
The small gallery
Curators: Reut Rabuah, Shelly Shavit
Opening: Thursday, 18.12.2025, 19:30
Gallery talk: Friday, 16.1.2026, 11:30
Closing: Saturday, 31.1.2026, 14:00
