Gilat Blum

Gilat Bloom is an artist, architect, and researcher whose practice explores the intersection of architecture, textiles, and human scale. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tel Aviv University and a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Design from Shenkar, where she later continued her professional training in weaving within the Department of Textile Design. Her architectural background forms the foundation of her spatial thinking and informs the material investigations developed in her studio practice.

The installation proposes a space within a nocturnal urban scene, capturing a moment in time and transforming it into a material structure. Composed of a series of vertical units made from black and ivory synthetic cords, the work evokes the massing of modernist architecture through a lightweight textile construction, translating a textile logic into an architectural scale.

Hand weaving generates a dynamic relationship between material and space, one that is continuously constructed and opened up throughout the work. Each unit suggests a different architectural fragment, and together they form a shifting perception of the surrounding space. This approach echoes the way the built environment is experienced at night, when the urban landscape appears not as a continuous mass but as a constellation of illuminated points emerging from the darkness. The vertical cords establish continuity and rhythm, while variations in the weave create conditions through which light and vision gradually move from structure to line, and from textile to cord.