ARTIST STATEMENT
I make mostly drawing on paper. When I work in different media, it is usually based on the drawings, fulfilling a function which the drawings cannot. (Murals and video are two examples.) My subjects can be roughly divided into two groups: Other people’s art and my daily life. Text appears often, blurring the line between concrete poetry, text drawings and illustration.I am a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Argentina and raised in Israel. I have lived in the United States since summer 2005. I speak three languages and am a product of at least as many cultures.
I mention this here because I think these prosaic facts are imperative to understanding the way I work and the subjects I choose. Living in several cultures and languages at the same time means, for me, a fundamental interest in translation and displacement.
By ‘translation’ I mean the transportation of an experience from one person to another, using different means of representation, from 3D to 2D and back, using text to explain image and vice versa, placing one environment into/onto another.
Displacement is the inescapable origin and destination of all these activities. The more I try to translate, explain and represent my experience, the deeper the displacement I must perform on my subject.
Whether I am making a piece based on someone else’s art I saw in a museum, a conversation I had or an object which became important for me to portray, the intention is always the same- to mediate an experience I had to the viewer through a visual medium.