Play With Me
2024 | Porcelain, Stoneware, Performance, Action-Installation & Video
Play with Me is a ceramic-performance, an action-installation and a video artwork. The artist-brothers Roy Maayan (ceramics artist) and Erez Maayan (performance artist) play catch with ten ceramics balls. As they engage in the playful action, every once in a while a ball drops and breaks. The remains of the performance constitute a memory, an action-installation, embodying the playfulness, fragility and brotherhood. The piece is changing throughout the artistic action: at first the balls are displayed intact, followed by the live action, which transforms the installation. The whole process is documented and presented alongside the installation for viewers to see and imagine.
Brother-artists ROY MAAYAN (ceramics) & EREZ MAAYAN (performance) have been collaborating for the past 20 years. Their field of interest is in cultural and material relations, inter-medial encounters and the interaction with audiences. Their aim is to bridge the gap between high and low (art/materials), and between the performative act of art-making and the artistic object itself.
Their work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and events, in Museums, galleries and biennales around the world (Israel, England, France, Latvia, Romania, Belgium, Cote d'Ivoire, Jordan, South Korea, Senegal, Azerbaijan, Croatia, USA, Switzerland and many more).
Roy holds an M.A. in the arts from Tel Aviv University and a BFA in the department of ceramic design from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Erez has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Biotechnology, all from Tel-Aviv University. Erez is the artistic director of Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv & Roy has an active studio in Tel-Aviv. Both teach in academies and professional art schools and hold seminars, symposiums and lectures on various subjects.
