Gila Greenfield‏

lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her work consists mainly of figurative paintings and collages of living spaces and deals with the absence and human presence within them. The rooms in her works are based on photographs of interior spaces from design magazines from Europe and Japan from the 1950s and 1960s and local photographs that she photographs in museums, galleries and abandoned houses. The main occupation in her work is the living room as a living space that contains particles of memory and is almost always abandoned and is a meeting place of different picturesque and cultural perspectives. The paintings are meticulous in detail and reveal peeling walls that reveal layers of time, “cut” elements from design magazines and characters, especially women within these spaces. Her painting work relies mainly on the collage work, which is for Greenfield not only a technique but a comprehensive way of thinking, and so her paintings are influenced by the processes of replication, disassembly and assembly- typical of this medium. Greenfield seeks the tension between the aesthetic and the crumbling, the tempting to abandon, the bourgeois and the alternative.

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