Rotem  Ritov

  • Installations
    • The Good Shepherd Installation
    • The Oracle
    • First Redemption Branch
    • Ha-Sair NordArt 2022
    • Lost & Found 2022
    • Air.Cat 2021
    • Ha-Sair / 2019 Alfred Gallery
    • Monarch Migration#3 – Biotopia: Gaza / 2018 Fresh Paint 10
    • Monarch Migration #2 / 2017 MUZA Muzeum
    • Adalaad / 2017 London Gordon Gallery
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava Gallery
    • The Field 4# / NordArt 2016
    • The Field / 2015 Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field /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
  • More Works
    • Complexed Godesses and Fake Heros
    • The Good Shepherd
    • Self portrait with Thistles
    • The Field
    • Redemption
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Thoughts Books
  • About & CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Installations
    • The Good Shepherd Installation
    • The Oracle
    • First Redemption Branch
    • Ha-Sair NordArt 2022
    • Lost & Found 2022
    • Air.Cat 2021
    • Ha-Sair / 2019 Alfred Gallery
    • Monarch Migration#3 – Biotopia: Gaza / 2018 Fresh Paint 10
    • Monarch Migration #2 / 2017 MUZA Muzeum
    • Adalaad / 2017 London Gordon Gallery
    • Sacred Ground / 2014 / Hahava Gallery
    • The Field 4# / NordArt 2016
    • The Field / 2015 Florentine 45 Gallery
    • Adalaad's Cult
    • The Field /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
  • More Works
    • Complexed Godesses and Fake Heros
    • The Good Shepherd
    • Self portrait with Thistles
    • The Field
    • Redemption
    • Black & Solve (Gridllers)
    • Florentine
    • Apart.Art Project
    • Shoes
  • Thoughts Books
  • About & CV
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Links
Self portrait with Thistles
Charcoal and gold pigment on masking tape, 2022

Picture
Self portrait with Thistles (Dardar)
The portrait was inspired by the iconic figure of 'Saint Stephen' who was stoned to death at the foot of the walls of Jerusalem at  34 AD. As a stone is the attribute of Saint Stephens, the image of the dry thistle has been adopted by Ritov as hers attribute. The
thistle symbolize two local associations: a geographical-botanical point of view and  a narrative-historical-political point of view.

The thistle, more precisely the common thistle, appeared for the first time in Ritovs works as part of  the installation "The Field". There he represented the territory over which two narratives are fighting of. Later, in another body of work, the thistle appeared in the wreath of the goddess Adallaad, representing her image, an attribute of her ability to keep and compile everything that happened. Adallaad collects events, remembers them and assembles them forever, just as the thistle preserve  in its seeds the memory of the next generation during the long dry periods in Israel.
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