Works on Paper

Works on Paper

In this group exhibition, four artists presented their unique approaches to the classical medium of paper, which plays a central role in their artistic practices. Each artist brought a distinctive perspective, using paper as a medium to explore their individual content-related interests.

The themes that weave through the exhibition include memory, a politically troubled past, women’s rights, the subconscious, and deeply personal narratives. Despite their diverse backgrounds and methods, the artists shared a common thread in the spontaneity with which their subjects emerge. Through the use of gouache, oil, watercolor, ink, and charcoal, the artists allow their ideas to take shape quickly and fluidly. This approach, marked by rapid and sweeping execution, often results in works that offer intimate and sensitive glimpses into the artists' intentions and emotional landscapes.

Yehudit Sasportas chose for the exhibition ten drawings in charcoal on paper from her series of works known as Adam-Haya. As a group, they form an important chapter in Sasportas' ongoing Liquid Desert Project.

For the Adam-Haya drawings, the artist installed a hidden field camera in the Negev desert in southern Israel, filming for 24h every day, capturing wild, shy animals such as jackals, hyenas, wild boars and wolves during their nocturnal migrations. The Hebrew title Adam-Haya stands for the encounter between the human (Adam) and the animal (Haya), which is transferred to the paper by means of the charcoal drawing in a multi-layered communication process.

Drawing without line allows the artist to depict the active, subconscious resonance field that interests her. It becomes a poetic form of expression, where the act of charcoal drawing conveys language and subconscious information. The soft, blurred contours represent the unspoken language that animals communicate and pass on as they silently navigate through the desert.