Tel Aviv Based painter, Shoshi Zak, is an image maker and thoughts collector, portraying figurative oil paintings and pencil drawings.
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She studies still life, human figure and landscape scenes from direct observation as well as creating fictional dreamlike pieces, based on real moments, sensations and sights.
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Shoshi's body of work portrays the dialogue between the imaginary and the perceptible. Her interest lies on one hand in exploring the fantastic aspect of everyday life and on the other, in finding the figurative quality of higher realms.
My work focuses on exploring spaces of transition, where human perception resides in a twilight zone between everyday physical reality and realms of magic, imagination, and memory. The images I create arise from real, concrete encounters with objects and people, to which a fantastical layer is added for wonder and mirage.
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I work with a variety of materials that enable the blending and blurring of the boundaries between both worlds. Drawing pencils which allow numerous shades of grey, color pencils that merge with oil paints producing clear edges and soft patches, thus producing precise texture alongside ambiguous formality. Gold leaf accentuation illuminating fragments of reflections from the actual surroundings.
Working in series allows evolving layers of meaning, revealed in the spaces between works. By mixing fact with fiction and bringing together biography and culture, I aspire to create visual moments of silence and reflection in a hectic and chaotic world.