"If my daughters were african girls" Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

Deborah Sfez is a multidisciplinary, internationally recognised artist, born in 1964, working in Cote-d’Ivoire and Israel. Her tools are Photography, moving image, filmed performance accompanied by her written texts and her original composed music and sound.
Her atypical path begins with her studies of English and French literature and language, then learning the trades of Fashion in Paris and Theatre Costumes in Tel Aviv. She uses all these different and various knowledges and skills in her artistic research and works.

In 2014 she is short listed in Beers Gallery for the Award of Contemporary emerging Artists in London; in the same year she also gets the award for best Portraiture in New York Professional Women Photographer. In 2017 her series of collages, she names “Clone”, is chosen to be exhibited at Hellerau, Dresden. Her video work, “A Journey to the Land of Memory” enters the archive of the Visual Center at the Memorial Museum “Yad Vashem” in Jerusalem.
In 2021 Sfez has a solo exhibition “The People of This Country”, at the Mucat Museum for Contemporary Art in Abidjan Cote-d’Ivoire, which include twenty-one Portraits of Ivorian people whom she asked to answer the question: “what is Homeland for you?”.
Her writing also gets acknowledgment in several literary reviews and magazines, when in 2020 her poem “Homeland” is published in “Writing in a Woman’s Voice”, and her video-poem “Testimony” enters “Artvilla”.

However, Deborah Sfez does not call herself neither a Poet nor a Photographer and not even an Actor, she only uses all these ways of expression to fully communicate with her audience and create a total emotion in the viewer. Her work mainly deals with the contemporary, pressing, and constant occupation with Identity as a private or a collective issue, with political, national, or historical aspects and attachments.