Lihie Talmor: From the Dark

The nuances, the different textures, the emanation of light or its concealment, what is highlighted and what is relegated to the shadows: in Lihie Talmor's works, every detail has a meaning and every action has a purpose. Her work is centered on a search for something that was lost, but left traces on site, despite the vicissitudes of time.

The exhibition encapsulates Talmor's work over the past two decades, revealing extraordinary ingenuity and innovation in well-known printmaking techniques. Print allows Talmor to follow that which is absent and render it present again, while exposing the feelings and meanings contained in it. She usually begins her work process by taking a photograph of a space, examining its history—the time that has passed, a story that left its mark on a place. She then peels layers off the photograph, subtracts and adds elements, dissects and connects, until the final image moves away from the photographs from which it was born to create another, imaginary place, the result of questions, wishes, and feelings.

The freedom inherent in printmaking enables reversal—transforming the documented into imaginary, and introducing tension between reproduction and fiction, between memory and invention. Through print, Talmor sheds light on dark chapters in the history of a place, uncovering truths and secrets hidden beneath the surface, and discussing the innate tensions between history, man, and place.

Lihie Talmor
1944, Tel Aviv; lives in Kibbutz Adamit (evacuated to Acre since October 2023)

Curator: Shahar Doron