A series of works inspired by photos I took on my daily tours and wanderings at Argaman Beach during our stay at the Acre Beach Hotel after evacuating our home in Kibbutz Adamit in October 2023. Every day the strong wind and the tires of the trucks working on the beach left new footprints on the boardwalk and on the sand. Every day a new "picture" was born. I created a collage from the various photographs and printed it on a laser printer and then transferred the image to a wooden board on which I painted and drew, step by step, layer upon layer, alternately adding and sub-structing. In my work, I tend to incorporate images inspired by photographs taken at different places onto the new series, at times, as an independent print and other times as an element of one or several images of the “new” places depicted in the new series: in this series, parts of reservoirs and water towers -two among many- that I have been photographing for years in various localities throughout the Israeli space; a defining aspect of the Zionist iconography of the landscape of the new Jewish land.
In recent years, the work of Lihie Talmor has been like a progressive conquest of artistic space: from the two-dimensional plane of the etched page, with its illusionary spaces
Is it necessary to have the proper distance so as to see the full picture? And how does one know what the proper distance is?
In recent years, the work of Lihie Talmor has been like a progressive conquest of artistic space: from the two-dimensional plane of the etched page, with its illusionary spaces
Is it necessary to have the proper distance so as to see the full picture? And how does one know what the proper distance is?
It is not difficult to see in Lihie Talmor's work the expression of a sensitivity in its utmost development, that the artist knows how to communicate assertively
There exist an overriding need to distinguish between the ephemeral and the essential; the ephemeral wounds, the essential yet endures; until the day when the ephemeral will have corroded the essential, will have destroyed its very nucleus, its hard nucleus…
In a country where oblivion is who gathers the remains of the city, where the blanks of collective memory decide about the changes in power and the markets, the work of LIHIE TALMOR functions as a film of the subversive unconscious.
