Feelings of Descent \/Tsibi Geva<\/p>\n
A world of wandering, immigration, displacement; this is the world that stems out of Aya Eliav\u2019s drawings in \u201cFeelings of Descent\u201d. The works\u2019 facade, discovering itself to the eyes of the beholder, is as if growing from within and underneath the hidden layers of color, offering a sense of materialism that holds a secret. In the early paintings, the airplane appears, gently sketched, centralized; positioned at someplace, on the earth\u2019s ground or at the ground of the painting or at the blue skies. Afterwards it will be the ship\u2019s bow that will emerge out of the murkiness of the painting; tall masts, a massive heavy chunk of blackness. Images of movement, of wanderings, of transitions, appear and reappear as a confirmatory sign of mandatory presence, telling of life in the here and there, telling of evolutions, of a ground that is always in-between. A place that is no-place.<\/p>\n
The appreciation and understanding of Aya\u2019s work as landscape paintings, does not exclude the abstract image that offers itself on first sight. Vertical and horizontal plates of color, supposedly disconnected and destination-less, are placed as layered patches. Unexpectedly and inexplicably the picture is formed by, and in relation to, these abstract patches of color, in a way that grants them the meaning of a background, or interim spaces, or a detached pictographic event whose connection to its above representation is fortuitous, provisional, unstable. The way in which an entire body of work is composed out of supposedly contradictory courses of action, dissimilar in their internal logic, that abruptly meet somewhere, converse, and create a fascinating moment of pictorial grace \u2013 is captivating.In the more recent landscape paintings, arrangements and drawing grounds, meeting in a diptych manner, create a panorama, a flow, albeit fragmented, a displacement within the linearity of the horizon, of the landscape occurrence. A drawing, similar to a stalactite of ice, is a movement that froze, a paint that has congealed upon the flow of the thought, a sporadic tremor, a spontaneous gesture, a random leak of material, that similar to a puddle, is searching for its place and crystallizes into a testimony, a time ring.Aya Eliav\u2019s paintings are clotted testimonies to this journey of the world, or to the internal voyage, searching for an illustrative phrasing to this movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6868,"template":"","categories":[204],"artists":[455],"exhibition":[456],"curator":[457],"years":[458],"class_list":["post-1495","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solo-exhibitions","artists-eliav-aya","exhibition-feelings-of-descent","curator-tsibi-geva","years-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}