Keren Anavy
Purple Rain, 2013-2020
Installation: vinyl prints, Plexiglas, mirror.
Paintings: ink, acrylic and mixed media on transparencies
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
$950 for each small drawing
(20% of proceeds go to the Artist Relief Fund)
Installation views by Keren Anavy. Detail photo by Yigal Pardo.
Location: Briarwood Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498
Artist's Description:
What turns a space into a place with identity and significance?
During the pandemic I wandered between my studio in Brooklyn, the nature reserves in the Upstate New York area, and my homeland and family in Israel. This dynamic alongside my interest in the relationships between nature and art, brought me back to images and drawings I did before I moved to New York. The drawings depict a withering thorny thicket of typical dry Israeli landscape, painted in black and purple ink and mixed media on transparencies, they serve as a window installation, part of Southern Rose, my solo exhibition that expressed the longing to be a part of The Western culture while creating in the navel of the Middle East.
I printed the photos of the window installation on vinyl, and placed them in a fenced, sheltered garden in Woodstock woods. The garden as a symbol of our relationship to control nature in generating and nursing life. I created a provisional, utopian and renewed place by processing the external worlds which I amassed and transformed into new one. My installation based on my desire to create a new place, a total space that would constitute synthesis of my visual thoughts regarding the concepts of place and identity.
The landscape and the nature reflect identity, is it possible to convey identity – landscape? Is it feasible to create a virtual place that constitutes a synthesis of sections that originate in totally unrelated places?
kerenanavy.com
Inquiries: eileen@neumeraki.com
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