Shira Avidor

Objects found in a dwelling, compositionally isolated and centered, are the focal point of the artist. The accumulation of painted monotonous moments, past and present, converge into one painted idea.
These focal point images reflect fleeting moments and fragments of thoughts and memories from the daily life. Scattered objects of clothes, plates, blankets, towels etc. are edited and viewed again through the magnifying glass of the artist. Subdued lights, subtle colors and mainly a palette composed of grays and whites, portrays the contemporary decaying life quoted through the aesthetic and language of traditional painting.
An ongoing dialog with the long tradition of ‘Memento Mori’ (remember your mortality) genre of painting and ‘passing time’, are mirrored through various images. These timeless, placeless, ambiguous spaces convey partial emptiness and abandonment while the idea of hominess crumbles apart.