Participating Artists
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Draft 1918, 2008, oil on canvas, 107 x 120 cm, courtesy of the artist
Netta Lieber Sheffer
Neta Lieber Sheffer's paintings are concerned with the formation of groups and with collective identity from a painterly, subjective perspective. Her works call the viewer's attention to the inevitable human longing for comradeship and belonging. The artist is concerned with the manner in which shared narratives are created through intensive collective experiences, which unfold within the framework of different social systems - such as conscription into the army, agricultural work, or school classes. Her use of a nostalgic painterly language seems to conjure up an experience of social sharing, and enables the viewer to identify with the depicted scenes. In these works, individual and collective memory intermingle, as do personal and group identity.
Born in Israel, 1972; lives and works in Ayanot
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