Acryl on canvas 2023
20x20 Cm
Kavanism
The Wrong Stripes
Fundbüro 2023, Berlin
a journey of a wrong stripe.
Oil on canvas 2023
20x20 Cm
Acryl on canvas 2023
20x20 Cm
“Feel”
Drawings and botanical illustrations Orto botanico Palermo
Ink on paper 2024
21x29 Cm
Wire on paper 2024
30x30 Cm
Wire and pencil on paper 2024
30x30 Cm
Wire on paper 2024
30x30 Cm
Alzheimer
TRUSt
Paintings
2020-22
Maroquinerie
In the 1950s, my grandfather immigrated to Israel from Morocco with his wife and four children. He packed a limited number of items for the trip and did not forget to take his knife with him. This should be known, grandfather was a leather goods artisan in Morocco, Maroquinerie, a profession continuing the age-old culture of designing bags and leather goods. When they arrived in Israel, the knife he loved so much took on a completely different meaning.
In the 1960s, my grandmother, my grandfather, and their family moved to the lower city of Haifa. Grandpa worked in the port of Haifa as a painter, and one day, while painting a ship, Grandpa fell from the scaffolding and hurt his back. His two friends, who carried him home, begged him to inform the port authorities for support and compensation on their part, but Grandfather only asked that he be left with his family, so that they would take care of him.
I know this story from my childhood but in my imagination, grandfather never fell on his back, but grew wings just before the fall and landed on his two feet. This event, of course, had a profound effect on the family, who once again moved their residence, this time to Tel Aviv. Grandfather returned to his favorite knife and worked as a leather bag craftsman until his retirement, with the magnificent family he founded in Israel by his side.
At Maroquinerie I would like to investigate and ask universal questions about people who are cut off from their past and arrive in a foreign place - about the hope, the alienation, the fear, the cut off from the past, the ability to build a new life by killing your old shadows of identity.
The exhibition took place in the Stanton neighborhood in Haifa Israel where my grandfather used to work and live.
Maroquinerie -
early works
