Rotem  Ritov

  • Work
    • The Field
    • OutPosts
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Installations
    • Monarch Migration #2 2017
    • Adalaad London Gordon
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava GalLery
    • The Field 4# NordArt
    • The Field / 2015 / Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field / Curator: Sharon Toval / 2014 / Digital Art Incubator
    • After The Butterflies / 2014 / Alfred Gallery
    • The Wild East / 2012 / Haifa Museum
    • Upupa Act / 2012 / Alfred Gallery
    • The Field / 2013 / Bezalel7 - ImageRoom
  • About
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Work
    • The Field
    • OutPosts
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Installations
    • Monarch Migration #2 2017
    • Adalaad London Gordon
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava GalLery
    • The Field 4# NordArt
    • The Field / 2015 / Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field / Curator: Sharon Toval / 2014 / Digital Art Incubator
    • After The Butterflies / 2014 / Alfred Gallery
    • The Wild East / 2012 / Haifa Museum
    • Upupa Act / 2012 / Alfred Gallery
    • The Field / 2013 / Bezalel7 - ImageRoom
  • About
  • CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
I was born in Haifa and lived in the city during different chapters of my life. My family traveled
widely, and I experienced my childhood in Sinai, Sweden, Haifa and Kfar Vradim. I currently live and work in Tel Aviv.

I graduated the department of Architecture at WIZO Haifa (2006), contemporary dancer in my past.
I am an independent artist and a curator. My multi-disciplinary approach toward the field of art includes, among other things, the establishment of a unique gallery format combining my knowledge and love for architecture and curating, as was manifested in the "Apart.Art" gallery (2009-2011).
In 2011 I joined "Alfred Gallery" group, a group of artists operating a gallery in a cooperative format.

I find it important for an artist to understand the source of his art. The connection between ideas
and matter builds the artistic language. In my work I play with the obvious image and its dissolved expression to create a new and sometimes unrecognized visual language. I play with and combine both familiar techniques and methods I invent. The act of creating art is my way of living; for me it is an existence necessity. In some periods when I do not practice art, I feel stripped.

The personal story of every individual is a chapter of the local history pages, the international,  the urban, the political and the local / global zeitgeist. We are affected by our surroundings; the surrounding invades our personal space.

My surrounding is Israel, the stories I read in the newspaper, an environment torn between
parties. I am both there and not there. It is a part of me but not part of who I am or part of my daily routine. I collect photos of stories from news websites on the internet, captured and written by other people, and I treat them as a representation of the world associated with me but which I never felt associated with. For the most part, I don't have a concrete experience of the torn places; I don't really know how they smell.

I use my photo collection to flatten the stories they represent into individual context-free icons, and through them I map the visual representation of my civilian and human geography.

Rotem Ritov
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