Blink, crochet knitting, motor, 260x160cm, 2019
The work “Blink” takes the shape of a big rotating eye, composed from various eyes that comprise many knitted eyes. The whole see-through textile piece is hung from the ceiling, stretched on a bent aluminium pole, with zip-ties holding it and giving the feeling of eyelashes.
The eye is constantly moving, inspecting. Our ways of seeing and looking at reality is being suspended and controlled by the one big eye in the sky. As it turns, the eye reduces, becomes a single line, blinks.
Blood Moon, knitting, 150x70x70cm, 2010
“Blood Moon” was created while reading Rainer Maria Rilke's “Letters to a Young Poet”, where he suggests the possibility of male menstruation and child-bearing: "And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and it is birthing when he creates out of his innermost fullness..”. Moreover, he contemplates the lonesome existence of the artist, beyond definitions of gender, while in labor of giving birth to a masterpiece.
Medusa, Knitting, 300x70x70cm, 2010
By cohering the mythological seductive figure of Medusa with the jellyfish modus operandi of "going with the flow" - This work aims to portray the inherent reflex of maintaining a status quo in order to survive.
Ladder of Bones, Knitting, 300x250x30cm , 2010
This piece was made as a tribute to the most eminent Yiddish poet, Abraham Sutzkever. I was deeply inspired by Sutzkever's way of believing in God and in Life during the Holocaust. The work depicts a "Jacob's Ladder" made of knitted bones, connected to a chain.
Longing, Knitting, 300x60x60cm , 2009
This work alludes to the meeting points of two major western folk stories: The “Song of songs” by king Solomon, and “Rapunzel” by the brothers Grimm. it tends to suggest a different inter-textual/ trans-sexual reading, interpreted rather from the point of view of the "other" and the abject.
With its excretions, preconditioned internal and sexual organs, both male and female, being “squeezed out” of a sewer pipe from the ceiling and spills to the floor - the knitted entity portrays itself as an “inside out” state of mind, body and courting; and the civilizations that mold it all. "Longing" seeks to wobble the boundaries and definitions of self reshaping, physically and mentally, beyond the dominating mythically-erotic conditionings.