Attendance Check
2022 | Earthenware
Efrat Eyal’s work is a partly missing grid of handmade ceramics and fragments. Viewed from the front, it is two-dimensional, yet from the side the third dimension becomes visible, penetrates, and takes volume in the space. Her ethereal in-situ wall installation suggests unclear boundaries, moves between form and formlessness, brokenness and wholeness.
There are three intentions expressed here: First, the ability to grow with little mass. Second, the shift of focal point from the prominent to the peripheral, from the important to the less so. Third, the work contains its own future fractures. Though a piece may break, it still belongs, it keeps its place in the overall grid.
Eyal's work invites you to take your time, to be present.
EFRAT EYAL is a ceramics artist and art therapist. Alongside her studio work, Eyal teaches ceramics in a local art center, where people from different religions and social backgrounds are taking courses. Eyal's artistic language is based on the deconstruction of formal conventions, images, icons, and symbols from the history of art and ceramics - reassembling them in contemporary contexts, often relating to gender and social issues. Eyal's work process is experimental in nature, seeks to broaden the possible material expression by accentuating its full potential of fragility, of fixing and rebuilding, which allows further growth and development.
