From the exhibition catalog.
\nMira Hermoni conversing with the exhibition curator on her inspirations for her paintings, which seem to have been construed by a world that no longer exists:<\/p>\n
\u201c. . . It\u2019s true that what I have in my head are pictures which are nourished by a literary world which no longer exists and a cultural world which has passed away: the books of Stefan Zweig or Thomas Mann, for instance. My paintings could perhaps serve as theatrical settings for their works, or for \u201cSee Under: Love\u201d or \u201cStory of Love and Darkness\u201d, if we\u2019re talking about Hebrew literature \u2026 When I thought about Amos Oz\u2019s description of Zelda, her ascetic way of life, I came out with a table with an empty flowerpot on it. I say \u201cI came out with\u201d because I don\u2019t make any sketches. My pictures aren\u2019t planned. My suitcases could easily be the suitcases of Momi\u2019s grandfather in \u201cSee Under: Love\u201d or a suitcase of memories.
\n. . . I work with parts of paintings I have in my head. Sometimes they conflict with one another, and then one of them has to wait its turn in the next picture. The memories are perhaps from my subconscious, for I was born in this country, a child of formica, and the heavy furniture isn\u2019t part of my childhood but something I\u2019m not really aware of. The little girls, for example, are figures I\u2019ve never known, they\u2019re not me. In my case, the ribbon was in the center of my head and not at the side, but this little girl exists to such a degree that she has become part of me. It\u2019s very important to me to have openings leading out of the picture or to have a little light falling on the heavy furniture or to sometimes have a door opening onto somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7715,"template":"","categories":[204],"artists":[1550],"exhibition":[1551],"curator":[1447],"years":[3764],"class_list":["post-2712","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solo-exhibitions","artists-hermoni-mira","exhibition-new-works-paintings","curator-meira-perry-lehmann","years-2004-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/2712","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\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}