MIKVEH
MIKVEH
MIKVEH
MIKVEH
MIKVEH
A mikveh was found in the state of Falcon, Venezuela, and is considered unique among its kind: it is the first excavated in Venezuela and possibly in the Americas. Experts determined that it formed part of a structure built circa 1774 on the site of a Pre-Colombian indigenous settlement.
In biblical Hebrew, mikveh literally means a collection of water and refers to the baths where ritual purification prescribed by Judaism take place through full immersion of the body, ideally in pure water collected from a natural source.
The etching series MIKVEH is the result of photographs I have taken throughout my wanderings along different beaches, where natural formations or eroded configurations coexist with the manmade, archeological remains of mikvehs or olive oil vats. Like the rest of my work, MIKVEH stems from my fascination with the structure of things, be it in the form of architecture, landscape, shape or time; structures that are ambiguous and flexible forms or concepts: structures that are traces or palimpsests.
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.
