Yael Fibak Ilan

My name is Yael Fibak Ilan, mother of three, living and creating between the Galilee and Tel Aviv. I am the founder of an artists’ space and shared studio in Tel Aviv’s Kiryat HaMelacha. My work moves between painting, photography, and independent curating, exploring the dialogue between the personal and the collective, between private memory and the shifting Israeli landscape. I work primarily with oil, acrylic, and pastel (panda), often integrating photography as both material and perspective. My depictions of people and local scenery seek to touch the fragility of existence here — the tension between compassion and exposure, intimacy and the stark Mediterranean light. Rooted in daily encounters with this land — its light, faces, and transitions — my art strives to illuminate the familiar from a new angle, not merely as documentation but as an invitation to reflect on identity, belonging, and the subtle beauty that hides within everyday life.