ARTIST PROFILE

Efrat Eyal

  • Israel (b. 1967 in Tel aviv)
  • Currently in Hila, Israel.
Detail from the mini-series "Black Works"

Detail from the mini-series "Black Works"

  • 2013
  • clay
  • 6.5 x 12.5 x 4 cm

  • The Israeli Ceramics Collection, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
  • The whole series - thumbnail "On four.." - thumbnail  - thumbnail  - thumbnail  - thumbnail A dildo spout - thumbnail detail from the mini-series "Black Works" - thumbnail  - thumbnail Detail from the mini-series "Black Works" - thumbnail

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    A Greek Tragedy | 2013

A series of ware rich in form and decoration offers a complex dialogue between cultures and social stances. The ware, similar in shape and color to classical Greek ceramics, is composed of numerous and diverse parts slip cast in molds of everyday items taken from the artist's domestic space. They represent a kind of private dictionary of form, from which the building blocks are taken to create ware according to traditional schemes. Eyal shifts between perfection and classical symmetry, and between the personal touch and contemporary statement. The compositions that follow the form of the ware and its flowing patterns are reminiscent of classical decoration. The artist embeds images related to domestic tasks, and alongside them prints based on a photographic sequence of naked women cleaning, ironing and more, which were photographed by Eadweard Muybridge in a study of movement. In this way Eyal incorporates into the ware - which reflects beauty and elegance – a critical standpoint that relates to social conventions and also examines the permanent tension between art and the home and family that women-artists experience. (Text from the catalogue of The seventh Biennle for Israeli Ceramics Imprinting on Clay – cultural Memory in Contemporary Ceramic Art Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv)