Talia Keinan

Talia Keinan was born in 1978 in Israel, where she currently lives and works. Keinan's work is in constant flux in that her use of materials and mediums refer to the existing realm that lies between reality and fantasy. The space she creates can be viewed as a world of its own, where sound unveils an obscure memory and projected video on a drawing generates imaginative places. The observer must decide his or her own way in this space, as objects synchronize to create a private and associative experience. The materials are transformed as a narrative is created amongst the objects. An internal mechanism grants vivid life to the place and shares the sensational emotion of an invented and autonomous world.

Talia Keinan's work has been displayed in solo exhibitions including the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel in 2003; Art 37 Basel, Art Statements, Basel in 2006; Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Israeli Art Prize 2007 shortlist exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv in 2007; and The Mountain and the Shivering Fact, Goch Museum, Goch, Germany in 2010, as well as numerous group exhibitions worldwide, including Video Drawing, Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem in 2009 and Nature and Destiny, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan. Keinan has received numerous prestigious awards, amongst them the Wolf Foundation, Anselm Kiefer Prize for Young Artists as well as the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize in 2007.

Courtesy of the Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art