A self-taught artist specializing in dry pastel portraits. Her work explores the tension between presence and disappearance, between memory and the fleeting moment. Pastel, as a delicate and fragile material, allows her to express human emotion directly and without mediation – layers of powder that accumulate into a gaze, an expression, a story. At the center of her work stands the motherhood experience. she searches for quiet moments, the small cracks through which emotional truth is revealed. Portraits are not merely external representation, but an attempt to touch the inner world – identity, pain, strength and vulnerability. In her recent series, which focuses on mothers of hostages, She seeks to give place to their powerful presence. Through the gaze, the lines and silences, she documents a different kind of strength – a quiet, persistent strength that requires no declaration. The works are created out of deep respect for these women, and from a desire to preserve moments of humanity within a complex reality. The choice of pastel is not accidental – it is a material that cannot be fully controlled, one that responds to touch, to pressure, to breath. Like memory itself, it can be erased or altered. Through this medium, she explores the fragility of the moment and the possibility of holding onto it, even for one more moment.
Supported by Harel and ZURICH
