"Mud Itself"
2025
The exhibition confronts the monumental and intimate experience of inhabiting a body, exploring bodily inheritance, womanhood, and the tension between flesh and soul. The group of paintings are committed to the body as an entity, to it’s heat, to its mass and its incapability to apologize, and to our desperate need to apologize on its behalf.
Through dry, layered, irreversible marks of oil paint on raw plywod, the process raises the paradox of condensing volume, flesh, and presence into two dimensions. Using women close to the artist, the work creates spaces that ask what it means to exist within a body destined to return to the mud.
Photography by Hadas Hay