Yo1703@gmail.com

In my work, I explore how information is mediated and how past events are retold today. I am exploring how historical archival materials are altered or mediated, which impacts the construction of narratives and the perception of reality.
I dismantle and reassemble images that have contributed to a collective identity as part of popular memory in order to provide new and challenging narratives. I aim to present the complex relationship between political and institutional power and popular culture, as well as the subtle connections being made between these worlds that affect our lives.
I experiment with various methods to bring new speculative meanings to light through historical research. combining archival imagery with contemporary footage, testimonials, staged reenactments, soundscapes, computer-generated images, and digital animation and installation. The videos and short films draw attention to how entertainment serves as a mechanism of social power, and how cinematic media techniques portray war and terror as manipulative means to create identification and control.





Born 1989, Tel Aviv

Lives and works in Los Angeles, And Tel Aviv.

Exhibitions

2021:  UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Demon Sealers, Los Angeles.

2021: Al-saf, Demon sealers, Tel Aviv.

2019: Farhud- Jerusalem film festival.

2017: "Smoke Rings": Gabirol, Tel Aviv.

2017: "Atrium": Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv.

2017: "LIFE SCIENCES" Natural History Museum, Jerusalem design week "Slowly dying".

2016: "Julian", Artists' studios, Tel Aviv.

2016: CAN KIOSK, "Some lines from Tel-Aviv, Artists' studios, Tel Aviv.

2015: Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel.

2015: Final exhibition, Bezalel, photography department.

2012: (catalogue) Formally speaking, Haifa walks. Haifa sentence, Haifa museum.



Studies

2018-2020 MFA, Department of ART, NEW GENRES, UCLA.

2012-2015: BFA studies, photography department, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Israel (summa cum laude).

2013: Exchange Program SVA, New York.



Prizes and grants

2023: The Plumas Art Foundation 2023 grant

2019: Jerusalem film festival 2019 – The Ostrovsky Family Fund Award: Farhud.

2019: Graduate Student Research Fellowships-y&s Nazarian center for Israel studies (UCLA).

2019: Martha Matthias Danny award (UCLA).

2019: Graduate Division award (UCLA).

2018: Registration grant (UCLA).

2018: University fellowship (UCLA).

2016: Exhibition grant, The Arts Department, Culture Division of Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality and the Yehoshua Rabinovich  Foundation for the Arts.

2015: Bezalel Excellence Prize in memory of Aharon Dovrat, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

2014: Excellence prize in the Photography department .

2014: Josef and Ada Bolaffio prize for excellence (history and theory department).

2013: The Rami Halperin Prize for an Outstanding Student.