Video: Portraits painted with holes. Art project Holes in the memory by Michal Taharlev
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Israeli artist Michal Taharlev draws pictures in the spirit of pointillism, using neither paints nor brushes, only a needle with a thin sharp tip. "Leaky" paintings by this author are called Holes in the memory and are old family photographs restored in this original way. The methodical piercing of paper, and for one picture you need to make tens or even hundreds of thousands of needle holes, can be compared to the process of sorting out lentils, which Cinderella did, folding houses of cards, creating a mandala, or meditation. Such monotonous work tires some, annoys others, disciplines others. And Mikhal Tarkhalev is tempering - she had to "pick" not one picture with a thin sewing needle, but a whole series. Patience and restraint are human virtues.
Point by point, the artist rethought each of the family photographs in order to create not just copies, but independent works, the so-called variations on the theme. Merging into one another, they form something like a gradient that forms a shape with a slight haze, or several shapes, depending on the original photo. Semitransparent, ghostly greetings from the past, portraits of people who left their mark on the author's memory, like a needle that pierces paper leaves a trace.
You can get acquainted with the works of Michal Takharlev on her author's page.
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