A number of autobiographical circumstances have defined me as a person and an artist. I was born in British Palestine and grew up in Israel in a family and community of European immigrants, refugees and exiles. I resided for many years in Venezuela, where I still spend long periods of time. I lived for a year in India. I travel frequently to the United States and United Kingdom.
My current house and studio are in the North of Israel, a short distance from the border with Lebanon. I express myself in Hebrew, Spanish, and English, which live side by side in my daily language, just as painting, sculpture, photography, etching, and drawing do in my work. I consume books, newspapers and films in multiple languages voraciously, and have done so since childhood. I am never only in one place.
This experiential baggage has made me a person with a hybrid identity, ever shifting between different cultures, languages, lifestyles, and customs, sensitive to issues relating to migration, exile, and the human dramas that cause and are caused by these. Living in movement by choice, I have a deep empathy for those who are forced to move for the sake of their lives or those they love.
This awareness—and the fact that the countries I call home are embroiled in struggles of belonging and exclusion—has imbued my work with very current concerns, such as the ever-changing concepts of territory and border, the status of water and other resources that flow across national boundaries, and the architecture of refugees. My work is political, interested not in politics per se but in how politics shape the fates of human individuals and groups.
My intention is neither a historical nor a journalistic approach, neither testimony nor illustration of conflicts. On the contrary, the spaces I (re)create in my work are symbolic rather than geographical. On a meandering path between photography, etching, painting, and other techniques, I create fiction.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1969 - BSc in Architecture and Urban Planning, Technion, Technological Institute, Haifa, Israel.
1971 - BA in Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1971-74 - Teaches in the Poetics and Comparative Literature Program,Tel Aviv University,Tel Aviv, Israel.
1974-80 - Studies painting at the studio of Israeli painter Pinchas Abramovitch.
1981-83 - Studies printmaking at CEGRA, Centre of Studies for the Graphic Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
1981-83 - Studies painting at the studio of Venezuelan painter Walter Margulis.
1984 to present - Runs and participates in workshops in Italy, Belgium, Israel, Colombia, Venezuela and USA.
RESIDENCIES
2015 - University of Montevallo, Alabama, USA
1991 - Franz Mazereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
LIHIE GENDLER TALMOR
LIHIE GENDLER TALMOR
LIHIE GENDLER TALMOR
LIHIE GENDLER TALMOR
LIHIE GENDLER TALMOR
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.
