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
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
