Tamir Chen

"Weights / Dimension No. 8", MFA Graduation Exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv
The exhibition shows a new body of work that lives in tension between three central axes: dimensions, the body, and its weight – and the conflicting encounters between them.
Through multilayered drawings in translucent layers of color, a visual language emerges, revealing hints of imagery—like the mandrake plant, a symbol of toxic fertility— and seeking to illuminate an additional, transcendent dimension. The paintings hover between surrender and defined boundaries of gesture and trace, between actions that live in different dimensions of transparent material.
Alongside them are placed the “Golem Failures”—physical objects born from paintings that couldn’t find their place in space. Bodies sewn, filled, and dissected— as if embodying a wounded attempt at becoming.
The encounter between drawing and body creates a charged field of both ongoing creation and decay.
Photos by Daniel Hanoch