Urban Landscape Painting

Merav Sudaey's works and the images comprising them are drawn from observation of her social and national setting, often addressing issues pertaining to current affairs, such as struggle, war, terror, and bereavement. Concurrently, her work explores the reciprocity between East and West, between the traditional and the modern, the local and the global. She delves into the history and present of the intercultural exchange between societies in the Middle East and the world at large, a relationship rife with cultural and ideological antagonism, while simultaneously perusing Israeli society and her own life. Sudaey works in mixed media, such as oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as traditional techniques, such as sewing, embroidery, or imitation of various handicrafts. Through these techniques and the choice of images she describes the harsh reality and atrocity routine aesthetically and decoratively. The sharp contrast generated between the grave content and its mode of depiction raises questions and quandaries about the portrayed reality, lending it a new interpretation, a reading based on biographical details and mental states in the artist's life.