Yardena Ziv

I am a multidisciplinary artist, a graduate of the “Avni” Institute of Art and Design in painting and drawing, and a graduate of “Shenkar,” in the Department of Fashion Design. My body of work reflects my biographical, personal, and emotional identity. The connection between the two disciplines I studied and practiced over the years — fine art and fashion design — is expressed through the use of a local aesthetic: local materials that have been processed through interventions, sewing, and embroidery to create new narratives. The materials were collected from the urban environment of South Tel Aviv, from abandoned areas that over the years have become a rich source of images and inspiration in Tel Aviv. These areas take on new life for me through the acts of preservation and reconnection. In my work, the aesthetic of poverty and simple materials, which often conceal within them layers of local memory, is revealed. I create a local language in which the central image is a process of dismantling and reassembling into physical and narrative parts together. My works reflect a period of research and in-depth observation of human encounters in public spaces — moments of intimacy within the shared space. They were created over time and are expressed in a number of series.