Juliette - 2022
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Juliette draws from the aesthetics and visual language of old video games, serving as a tribute to my childhood. Growing up in a country marked by constant conflict, escapism through video games became a way for me to protect my mental health. As always, our mental landscapes (here, a digital utopia) merge with real life and shape how we perceive reality.
In both life and art (which for me are inseparable), I use humor and lightness as tools to process and portray deeper, more complex problems. Juliette explores the relationship between children and violence: their fascination with superheroes, and in some contexts (such as Israel) their admiration for soldiers, even as they remain the most vulnerable victims of forces far beyond their comprehension.
Animals appear frequently in my work, both as masks of anonymity and as expressions of my ecological belief that they are equals to us. I also deliberately distort them, forgetting how they “should” look - an act that opens up new, unexpected forms and meanings.
In both life and art (which for me are inseparable), I use humor and lightness as tools to process and portray deeper, more complex problems. Juliette explores the relationship between children and violence: their fascination with superheroes, and in some contexts (such as Israel) their admiration for soldiers, even as they remain the most vulnerable victims of forces far beyond their comprehension.
Animals appear frequently in my work, both as masks of anonymity and as expressions of my ecological belief that they are equals to us. I also deliberately distort them, forgetting how they “should” look - an act that opens up new, unexpected forms and meanings.