I have been painting and sculpting my entire life.
My childhood dream was to become an artist...
I’m a graphic designer (B.Des) and artist.
I was born in 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel, married to Guy and mother of 4.
I live in a small village near Frankfurt, Germany.
Since 2003, together with Guy, I work and design,
at Zugraphi - Design Studio, and Masters of Design - Academic graphics.
I also taught art in our studio for 13 years.
In 2005, about six months after the birth of our eldest daughter,
at the age of 28, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
Coping with my illness was a difficult task, butI found that my art could help me
deal with it.
And then came COVID-19.
Like all humans around the world, I also felt a burst of emotions, fear and anxiety.
I felt helpless. These feelings led me realize something about myself I was trying to hide for so many years. Professional therapy and the support of my amazing partner, helped me understand that I have been dealing with post trauma caused by incidents of sexual harassment, assault and rape I experienced in my past.
I found myself constantly painting and sculpting again.
I wasn’t afraid anymore.
I made my artistic debut in September 2021. My sculpture “Injected”(2009), was presented in the group exhibition “Breaking the Walls.” This initial experience helped me to overcome my insecurities and fear of exposure, and led me to attend more exhibitions to showcase my work and to finally fulfill my dream.
My practice is rooted in painting and sculpture, investigating the intersections of body, text, and memory.
I work through a material and performative commitment: writing directly onto the canvas is a Sisyphean gesture — repetitive, inscriptive, and erosive — that shapes surface, line, and volume. Words on the canvas appear, blur, are inscribed or erased; many of these texts are written in Hebrew — a language that carries biographical and cultural strata of place and origin, and that bears the weight of memory and loss.
I engage with the entanglements of trauma and sexuality with questions of identity, exploring how personal experiences are embedded in collective frameworks. In this investigation, writing becomes a ritual of remembering and forgetting — a wound attempting to heal through repetitive artistic labour. Through painting and sculpture I aim to deepen the encounter between material and language, to uncover hidden layers of experience, and to invite the viewer to face both the fragility and force of memory and the human body.
I hope that my art will be a voice to the women (and men) viewers, who have sadly shared this experience.
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