TOVA ELDAD

TOVA ELDAD
– IMAGELETS –

Tova Eldad, a multi-disciplinary artist and graduate of the Kalisher school of art (1986), is creating in Kiryat Hamelacha in Tel-Aviv. She has exhibited single exhibitions in “Gross” Gallery in Tel Aviv, “Noga” Gallery in Herzeliya, in the house of the artists in Hedera and more. She has also taken part in several group exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Ramat Gan Museum and the gallery of contemporary art (Kalisher) in Tel Aviv.

The series of “Imagelets” submerge psychological processes with processes in the space of time and culture which were frozen in layers that are not necessarily chronological, giving rise to a feeling that they hold within them primordial/magical forces.

 

In my works there is an ongoing dialogue between wild nature and the human nature, between its inner and outer expressions, represented by images from the natural world. Flowers, trees, birds, hyenas and more.
The works seem to be searching for some fragile and delicate balance between the different images and the space – the white expanse of the paper or canvas. Sometimes it is harmonious, sometimes threatening, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes offensive.
A balance point of order and chaos.

 

Human nature is expressed through the animal figures, representing the inner world of experiences, as it relates to place, time, and the timeless.
I seem to be seeking to return art to its past origins, derived from a connection to the shamanic spirit, when art was not “art”, but an array of Images which contain within them mystical power with all the might of a prehistoric fertility goddesses, or hieroglyphs as written language, as images, and as holy relics.
The works also relate quite often to death, and oblivion, existing as one entity with life”.