Naama Arad

Naama Arad (Hebrew: נעמה ערד) is an Israeli sculptor and installation artist born in 1985. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.[1] Arad has had solo exhibitions both at Tel Aviv Museum of Art as well as Sommer Contemporary Art gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel. Arad gained her bachelor's degree in visual art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2010), and a Masters from the School of the art Institute of Chicago (2014).[1]

Artistic practice

In her practice, Arad works to undermine structures of power and authority.[2] Her installations are a result of an ongoing examination and interest in architectural environments and domestic objects. Using the language of the bureaucratic secretarial action, Arad converts architectural structures and foundations into everyday office materials. With an apparatus that is traditionally coded as feminine, she builds and then deconstructs images of masculine power.[3]

Arad's conceptually artisanal and time consuming tasks are never immediately showing the amount of energy that the artist invested in their making; quite the opposite they are presented with a degree of nonchalance and carelessness that is deeply organic to Arad’s position as an artist. This contradictory position—the artist as laborious maker of objects empty of any functional, social or aesthetic value—becomes even more acute when the result carries a monumental and architectural tone; this is particularly visible in two cases: the first is a series of black lines through which the artist took control of the peculiar shape of the exhibition space hosting her solo show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2015; the second is EL AL (2012) in which a found image of a Roman arch is printed—scaled down to 355 x 291 cm—Xeroxed, shredded and finally exhibited hanging from the ceiling.[4][5]

Exhibits

In 2016 Arad's work was included as part of the exhibit, "Father Figures Are Hard to Find" at the New Society for Visual Arts.[6] Arad's work was included in "Bodyscapes," an exhibit curated by Adina Kamien-Kazhdan at the Israel Museum through most of 2020.[7]

Education

Selected solo exhibitions
  • 2018: Love Handles, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israeli[8]
  • 2017: Love Handles, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany[9]
  • 2017: Full Frontal, ACUD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016: Falling Water, Four A.M., New York, USA
  • 2015: Table Mountain, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israeli

References
  1. "Naama Arad Official Website – CV". Naama Arad Official Website.
  2. "Sommer Contemporary Art – Naama Arad: Africa Israel". Sommer Contemporary Art.
  3. Calò, Giorgia (2012-01-01). About Paper: Israeli Contemporary Art. postmediabooks. ISBN 9788874900879.
  4. Trezzi, Nicola (20 September 2016). "Naama Arad at Artport TLV". Art Viewer. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  5. Laylin, Tafline (28 November 2013). "Hundreds of Xerox Paper Strips Make Extraordinary Recycled Curtains". Green Prophet. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  6. "Father Figures Are Hard To Find". e-flux. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  7. Steinberg, Jessica (27 February 2020). "Four new Israel Museum exhibits contemplate disparate elements of life". Times of Israel. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
  8. "Exhibitions – Sommer Gallery For Contemporary Art".
  9. "Naama Arad - love handles - Dortmunder Kunstverein".
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