Something about Vered's Art...

The work of Vered Lahav offers us an insight into her unique perspective on the world; reflections on the contemporary city, modernist architecture, human relationships, gender roles, sexuality, notions of beauty, memory, childhood and fairy tales.

 

She refers to herself as a female flâneur, she wanders the streets, observing people, watching, absorbing, and filters these sights and sounds. This alchemistic filtering process results in sublime, paired down statements; saying so much but using a minimalist aesthetic. Yet within this apparent simplicity lies the power of her work. The image stays with us, creeps under our skin, penetrates our thoughts, as we turn the work over and over in our mind.

Her work is characterised by a strong visual identity. Common elements include a central composition, often depicting a single object or figure, a concern with material and texture and the use of a limited colour palette, white, black and grey but the dominant use of white is striking.

 

 

Sleepless, like Vered's previous exhibitions, functions as a multi-media installation; a collage of mixed media fragments, of texture, colour and form, architecturally placed to set up critical juxtapositions within the ever dominant pure white walls of the white cube gallery space.

Kate Pryor-Williams, Curator.

 

 

 

 

About Immigration…

Twilight’s star - 7 casts bronze stars & wires.

“The sculpture creates a tale not just of astral moments, but also a narrative that triggers themes of personal displacement, where an atmospheric occurrence becomes an allegory of migration – a story of cross-culture forming a new identity and existence. This in turns leads to a narrative of collision between Utopian dreams and reality, a moment where ‘external monument’ becomes ‘internal monument’ as an individual biography becomes one of universality.” (V.L)

 

 

Winter - Video triptych

“I deliberately searched for a misty day, I love the fog, snow, mist and rain, they are such romantic backdrops, such a contrast to the bright bleached out environment of the desert.”

Peter Pan

Series of 9 black and white photographs

“I stood next to the Peter Pan monument in Hyde Park, central London, and waited for men to pass. In photographing the men next to the monument I tried to explore the relationship between the grown up man and his inner child. How do you connect the myth to the modern city?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Poetic...

"The art of Vered Lahav involves a poetic collage of evocative image fragments created through combinations of photography (both found and created), brief non-explicatory texts, found objects (both natural and manufactured), sculptures immaculately constructed from a variety of materials (both traditional and non-traditional), and the site-specific ambience of the, more often than not, white-cube gallery space. Over the last twenty years, her 'less and less image that can give more and more meaning' impetus has steadily deepened the evocative, and often highly ambivalent resonance of her installations."

Robert Clarke