Lili Cohen Prah-ya

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    • Lulu Flowers
    • Etching & Monotype
    • Blonds Cry Too
    • What Does Pink Make Me
    • Very Pink Days
    • A Piece of Truth
    • The Way Home
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    • The Beginning
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    • Give Me an Hotel and I’ll Feel It — Nin&Bau, Athens
    • Fix You — Brighton
    • Big Lulu Flowers — Artspace Tel-Aviv
    • Blonds Cry Too — Artspace Tel-Aviv
    • Two Sided — Artspace Tel-Aviv
    • Hospitality — Triangle gallery
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Shvil Ha-Meretz st. 6
Tel Aviv, Israel
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In my work, I start with a mental introspection and reflections on memories of human figures and images of nature. Those images undergo formal processes of abstraction and expression. I explore the interaction between the paint and diverse pictorial supports like paper, canvas, sheets of metal, wood panels and more. With the painting, which is intuitive-quick in nature, I try to capture a formal essence and convey it in relation to how it appears in my mind’s eye. At the same time, the different images reflect the reality that surrounds me.

My work process is akin to embarking on an unplanned adventure. I weave a dialogue with the painting, which starts as devoid of a “position” and which I later associate with a word/sentence that form the works’ title, which adds another meaning and imbues it with an ambiguous “position.” My fundamental approach to the materiality of the painting is one of sensual and passionate pleasure. Despite the apparent influence of “action painting” on my work, there is a constant balance between the “spontaneity” and advance thought and planning that surround the work. I am interested in the merging of and balance between the material artistic expression and the contents and images which are influenced by women artists who engaged with personal, gender-feminine narrative and the question of motherhood like Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and others.

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Lili Cohen Prah-Ya lives and works in Tel Aviv. She engages in drawing, painting, sculpting, and installation.

The point of departure in her central body of work is drawing that is somewhere between the line and the stain, executed on various supports and in varying sizes ranging from the intimate to large-scale installations. The concept underlying most of the works is a kind of dialogue with patches of color, and the tension created between the image and its deciphering. The images appearing in the works are mostly echoes of feminine portraits and nature versus different patches of material, stains that do not strive to portray reality. The quick work pace is aimed at depicting, very much like a sensitive seismograph, a changing mood and state of mind.

Her works are being shown in several exhibition and art fairs in Israel and around the world. Her works included in private collections around the world.