About the Artist

Gabi Saltzman

Artist, designer and advertiser. His works deal with cultural icons, relationships and emotions, and are primarily created using screen printing as the main medium. In his unique language, he combines figures, quotes and materials into a "modern collage" that refreshingly presents new meanings, examining aesthetics, as well as humor and thought.

As part of the pluralis X Duart collaboration, Gabi presents a unique series of works on cardboard. Cardboard has a character that canvas lacks. Cardboard doesn't try to beautify itself, and it has a history of its own.

One could say it has street smarts.

Another aspect is that cardboard is supposed to protect what's inside it. On packaging cardboard, the word Fragile may sometimes appear. Fragile. A motif that personifies the cardboard and also speaks about us. We are all fragile and in need of protection.

 

Tali Yalonetzki

A graduate of the Visual Communication department - Illustration track at Bezalel (2009), Tali lives in Tel Aviv with her family.

Tali paints with acrylic on canvas or wood and in other mediums, drawing inspiration from nature, plays of light, memories, and nostalgia. In the series of works presented as part of the pluralis X Duart collaboration, Tali presents works that combine everyday moments with nostalgic scents of the past.

She illustrates for newspapers and books, and her creations are sold in Israel and worldwide.

 

Dana Zamir

A painter, graduate of the Kalisher School of Art, she lives and breathes art, owns a painting studio

and facilitates painting workshops.

Edna's creations are born from a deep connection to the inner world, through layers of color, emotion, and experience. Each painting is a journey in itself, a process that begins with inspiration and gradually develops, layer by layer, until the creation comes to life.

As part of the pluralis X Duart collaboration, Edna presents diverse works on canvas, mainly in an abstract style. For Edna, abstraction allows each viewer to infuse personal meanings into the painting, and therein lies its power.

 

Tamar Bernitzky

Textile designer and artist, owner of a textile design and production studio operating since 2010 in Tel Aviv.

A graduate of Shenkar in Textile Design in 2009, and a graduate of Bezalel with a master's degree in Industrial Design in 2016.

Tamar's works move along the line between the documented natural space and the imaginary space.

In a unique working process that combines digital printing and screen printing, textile layer sewing,

intentional wear and tear of soft materials.

She explores natural environments - starting from a wild landscape, which she documents and then processes in the studio

to create imagined landscapes imbued with human essence. The wild landscapes become full of grace and delicacy

thanks to unique textile treatments of exposure and concealment using special techniques based on ancient traditions.

As part of the pluralis X Duart collaboration, Tamar presents textile and paper works that offer a new, original, and poetic material perspective, a journey through an imagined time, containing new narratives to which rich layers of papers and fabrics, threads, and colors are sewn, burned, and painted.

The works are a colorful answer to the changing present full of uncertainty and to the past that is destroyed to be rebuilt.

 

Ilan Vigo

Vigo is an Israeli poet and artist who researches the intersection of material and language.

Vigo's works examine the meeting points between deconstruction and connection, and since the fracture - they are connected from crises that come alive in a vibrant, breathing, and kicking body.

As part of the Pluralis X Duarte collaboration, Vigo paints with ink on silk papers, allowing for transparency and softness so that the ink gives the paper a sense of life as a breathing material. Working with ink on paper recalls a tradition of calligraphic manuscripts and personal diaries, and Vigo, who has been writing a diary since she was eight, intimately and soothingly crumples the paper, making it sculptural, creating a tension between strength and vulnerability, a theme that often recurs in her works.

 

Hani Lapidoth

In her photographs, Hani Lapidoth tries to capture modest moments. The knowledge that the remaining days for love are slipping away urges her to document the delicate and fragile beauty of the fleeting moment.

The search for light symbolizes for Lapidoth the full yet absent presence of the Creator. Light exists, but there is also the void reflected in the emptiness present in the images. In the act of photography, she chooses to incorporate both simultaneously, observing what is precious to her, seeing how a world without a body touches this world.

The tension between being a mother of eight children and her spacious and minimalistic photographs is not only an aesthetic choice but also an essential one: the understanding that nothingness and emptiness are in fact a world in themselves:

As part of the Pluralis X Duarte collaboration, Lapidoth presents photographs she takes in her natural environment, at home. She is interested in the home in all its corners and what happens within it. Being in Argentina, where she moved with her family, far from the environment where she grew up, she finds herself repeatedly defining the boundaries of home. The outside is reflected inside; it is present, but mostly as a source of light or as a background.

As a mother, the real events always happen inside, at home.

 

Tali Vasiljevsky

Photographer-artist and designer born in Moldova. In her works, she explores the encounter between place and identity through nature, objects, and people, creating a new visual space – poetic and abstract – that gives a different meaning to familiar landscapes and images. In the series of works presented as part of the Pluralis X Duarte collaboration, she addresses questions of identity and belonging to a place, through observation of nature and physical spaces. For her, photography is an intermediate space — neither documentation nor imagination — but a field of renewed emergence, where the photographed image represents something new based on memory.

The work is built from visual intuition, allowing for the discovery and creation of fleeting moments; a space where identity, memory, and presence merge into a new visual form. Vasiljevsky empties the place of its original narrative and gives it a different identity, using monochromatic coloring and techniques of burning and removing the background.

 

Liana Navon

Artist and graphic designer who focuses on creating new visual worlds that exist at the intersection of art, design, and architecture. This connection allows her to move freely between different mediums and build an alternative reality that invites the viewer to pause, look, and re-examine the familiar.

As part of the Pluralis X Duarte collaboration, Navon presents works from two series. In the cloud series, Navon was influenced by the painter René Magritte, one of the greatest surrealists, who often used the motif of clouds to express the enigmatic dance between the visible and the invisible, between the tangible and the elusive. The green cloud functions as a visual gateway to the hidden realms of consciousness, illustrating the complex interplay between the conscious and subconscious. In the Choose Your Seat series, Navon addresses the complex fabric of everyday life that constantly confronts us with choices that shape our identity. This is an aesthetic series of surreal, unconventional chairs. It combines realistic objects that together create a whole, removing them from their original context. The work expresses a kind of wink, optimism, inviting us

to embrace our uniqueness. A kind of reminder to recognize our power to blur the lines of social expectations and celebrate our individuality.

 

Hila Kedem

For Hila, art speaks of truth. Her photographs engage in a dialogue with viewers, raising questions and making them think about their perceptions of reality, fashion, authenticity, and the way they look at the world and themselves.

In her work, she makes truth present through her connection with what stands before the camera—a connection based on chemistry, a timeless chemistry that happens in that very moment. For her, that moment means touching raw nerves, and film photography serves her purpose. She doesn't stage a scene, but uses what is in front of her—the light, the material, the person, and most importantly—the emotion. An emotion she sometimes only discovers after developing the picture.

When she photographs, Hila feels a powerful connection to that here-and-now moment, to the point of detachment—detachment from daily thoughts, from life itself, and connection to what is before her and what they came to do together.

She wants to give this experience to the viewers as well.

 

Li Chen 

A multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, photography, and installation. A graduate of the Ceramic and Glass Design Department at the Bezalel Academy. In her work, Li explores themes of gender, identity, memory, and time. Using materials such as glass, textiles, polymers, wood, and iron, she creates works that provoke thought about the changing nature of

identity, the passage of time, and how memory shapes self-perception. Her work combines traditional and contemporary working methods, examining the relationships between material, form, and meaning. Her works have been exhibited in museums in Israel and around the world.

The works presented as part of the collaboration between Duarte and Pluralis are partly taken from her last solo exhibition "Liminus," which dealt with the liminal space – states of threshold (boundary, transition) between past and future, between reality and imagination, between craftsmanship and mythology, psychology, etc.

The sculptural works – made from hand-crafted polymeric materials combined with oil paints, wood, glass, and rubber-latex – light boxes – were inspired by an exhibition she participated in called "Our Father," which dealt with the theme of "fathers and daughters," and these are light signs simulating skin with embossed sentences from a collection of recurring phrases her father used to say to her.

 

Fanny Horowitz

Fanny Horowitz is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Tel Aviv. Her works include oil on canvas in a figurative style, etching works in various techniques, and mixed-media collage works.

As part of the collaboration between Pluralis and Duarte, Fanny is presenting a series of works titled "Fantastic Reality."

The dizzying pace of life, constant change, lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, political instability, decay, and uncertainty served as the background and motivation for the artist's creation, driven by a desire to create a fantastical, imaginary world into which one could escape and perhaps find solace.

Fanny engages in collage using ready-made materials. The works are composed of images cut or torn from fashion and interior design magazines, as well as snippets of the artist's own drawings from different periods, which she chooses to combine, deconstructing the original images that possessed internal order and logic, and reassembling them according to her worldview and imagination. These connections verge on the absurd, prompting viewers to ask questions, challenge their certainty in the known and understood, and enter a new, imaginary world they might desire to inhabit. In this way, Fanny invites the viewer to experience a new, broad spiritual, physical, and metaphysical experience.

In Fanny Horowitz's works, one can observe familiar images and elements that have undergone a process of deconstruction and reassembly, transforming during their treatment into artworks that examine the boundaries of the medium in relation to place and time.

 

Shai Peri

An artist and multidisciplinary designer from Pardes Hanna-Karkur, a graduate of Bezalel's Ceramic Design Department, who creates digital illustrations and wall art combining wood and acrylic paint.

Peri's path to the WOOD WORK series, exhibited as part of Pluralis' collaboration with DooArt, stemmed from a journey with raw materials. His acquaintance with an industrial creative environment began in his childhood, in a small marble casting factory founded by his father, where his desire to explore and play with different materials first emerged, seeing it as a way to communicate and express himself. Later, Peri acquired theoretical and practical knowledge during his studies at Bezalel, where he explored the connection between design and art, between functionality and visuality.

His work in a studio for the restoration and preservation of murals exposed him to the contrast between delicate work performed on rough, industrial construction sites. Simultaneously, he began collecting remnants of raw materials, primarily small pieces of wood, from the construction sites he visited, intrigued by the textures and materiality of the discarded wood. After accumulating a large quantity of wood, Peri realized he had a "mosaic" of materials that could be given new life, and his goal became to connect the missing pieces, those discarded raw parts, into a new whole. Thus, he began creating the series of wood artworks.

Peri undertakes a process of cleaning and cataloging the parts, and in his studio, he creates formal combinations that blend the raw wood, with its signs of time, together with acrylic paint and precise geometric shapes, forming a new creation from the discarded pieces.

 

Studio Weave In

Stella Brezovsky, the designer and creator behind Weave In studio, enters the art world from a deep connection between two worlds: interior design and textile design. Her work was born from an architectural need – the search for an element that would bring "soul," softness, and texture to modern spaces without disturbing their designed tranquility.

The works of Weave In are defined as "architectural textiles." They draw inspiration from structures, clean lines, and plays of light and shadow. The material is the heart of the creation: using natural, raw, and breathable cotton threads stretched within high-quality wooden frames. The connection between the soft thread and the rigid frame creates a dialogue between nature and urbanity.

Each piece is a handmade creation, crafted with a unique technique developed by the artist in her studio. The process involves manual weaving, winding, and layers upon layers of threads, creating a geometric structure with three-dimensional depth. Unlike traditional textiles that tend to "drape," Stella's works are structured, taut, and precise.

The works exhibited at Pluralis are art meant to live with us. They are characterized by monochromatic colors and earth tones, and their purpose is to harmoniously integrate into the living space, adding warmth and a layer of timeless quality.

 

Maya Avishai

Maya Avishai is a ceramic artist who primarily works with porcelain, a material that allows for delicate, precise work with numerous small details. Thanks to porcelain's natural white hue, her works remain unglazed, maintaining their purity and authentic materiality.

Her inspiration comes from nature – the sea, organic growth, and worlds of delicate textures and forms. She creates works composed of many elements that coalesce into a single body, driven by a desire to evoke a sense of growth, movement, and life within the material.

Each creation is unique and one-of-a-kind, as she builds and positions the porcelain elements intuitively rather than according to a fixed pattern.

 

Miri Baruch

Miri Baruch is a contemporary painter who works in both abstract and figurative styles. Miri draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, as anything in her environment can evoke feelings and ideas in her: colors, shapes, and figures alike.

Her works are rich in emotion, ranging from tranquility and serenity to power and drama. Each creation is a unique outcome, shaped by the tools she chooses to use: brushes, sponges, spatulas, or rollers, and through carefully selected color palettes.

The creative process in the abstract style begins intuitively, and Miri then observes the painting and decides how to proceed. This creates an ongoing dialogue with the canvas until the work is completed.

 

Shadi Tuafra

Shadi Tuafra often paints himself or imaginary lives and figures that carry cultural, symbolic, and autobiographical significance. The figures express inner turmoil and upheaval alongside childlike naiveté. They address themes of origin, otherness, environment, and the rejection of violence in all its forms.

The color of charcoal appears in most of his works, and he also likes to incorporate unconventional techniques like using black coffee. His works possess a great deal of freedom and simplicity, allowing the viewer to contemplate and delve into their own thoughts.

At Pluralis, Tuafra presents a selection of works that reflect his artistic DNA, with an emphasis on the theme of freedom. The motif of birds recurs in his works in various ways, emphasizing this longing.

 Shir Melech

Shir Melech is a textile artist whose work practice is based on two main mediums: weaving and printing. In her work with these mediums, she deeply examines the existing connections between humans and nature and between people, and explores how these connections are formed, change, and break. Her creative process develops from layers of action: connecting, deconstructing, and reassembling. In her work, she combines fibers, threads, cyanotype prints, and glass plates. The glass plates serve as working surfaces through which the images are created during the printing process, and during the work, she places the plates on fabrics coated with a cyanotype solution and builds changing compositions on them. The shapes, transparency, and structure of the glass influence how light passes through the surface and creates the printed image.

 Einav Kamron

Einav Kamron's creation is an intuitive process that examines the interplay between color and form, integrating layers, textures, and transparency. Each work represents a dialogue between spontaneity and defined intention. The artist often incorporates old objects and childhood memories into her works, which naturally blend into her visual language.

She frequently creates on old canvases she previously used, feeling they possess a depth and maturity accumulated over the years. For her, painting is a journey of discovery that allows expression for emotions and feelings for which there are no words. She invites the public to explore her artistic world and to connect for inquiries or to share thoughts.

 Hadas Briar Binman

Through diverse tools, including long-exposure photography, text, and expressive painting of layers and erasures, Hadas creates a body of work exploring states of matter, oscillating between erasure and fusion. Using color, movement, erasures, and etchings between layers, her works unfold as a visual meditation on perception, presence, and transformation.

For her, creation is an attempt to align inner consciousness with the earthly world. In the transition between different layers of reality, she traces the changing boundaries between movement and silence, between memory and genesis, between trauma and healing. She seeks to examine what is unseen and exists in the sensory world, beneath the surface.

This is an attempt to contain the overflow while looking inward and outward: between the personal and the collective, as they are also reflected in Israeli reality.

 Yehudit Carter

After a long career as an interior designer, Yehudit returned to the starting point where it all began: her love for the direct encounter between material, texture, and color.

She developed an artistic approach that views creation as an inseparable part of the living environment – not a disconnected object, but a living presence.

The works are created with consideration for movement, rhythm, balance, and tranquility, and for how material meets light, wall, and human movement. The works reflect her language of material – minimalism with presence, precise coloring, and a texture that tells a story without words.