Limor Tamir
Ramat gan, Israel
Date of Birth: 17/03/1977 Country of Origin: Israel I’m a multidisciplinary artist, my chosen art...
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Limor Tamir
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Limor Tamir
Joined In 2018
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ABOUT
EDUCATION
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Date of Birth: 17/03/1977
Country of Origin: Israel
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, my chosen art medium is site- specific installation. The interaction with the physical space, its history, the stories and people that surround it, interlaced with questions of belonging, gender, religious, cultural and behavioral coercion are strong and constant triggers for my creation.
I craft, sculpt, draw, sketch- by hand and digitally, print, photograph, make video-art and performance. I mold everything into the space around me. Thus through repetition and mass production I create a strong sense of excess and abundance.
I Manipulate everyday objects to express the chaotic side effects of life and question consumerism, gluttony, sexuality, boredom, pain, routine, and livelihood. I’m interested in the sense of exploitation as opposed to pleasure and normalization.
In the objects I create, I search for softness, childishness, and innocence mixed with signs of the passage of time and the decaying body. My grotesque figures are social, current and personal portraits. They express an ambivalent, cynical and mocking outlook diluted with empathy and compassion.
For 5 years I worked with a partner creating large-scale object-filled installati...
Education
2011-2015 BFA (with excellence) Interdisciplinary Art, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design
2009 Complimentary veterinary medicine, Anima College
2008 Integrative touch and movement therapy studies, Avi Bahat method
2002-2006 Chinese medicine studies (acupuncture, Tuina. herbal remedies), East-West College,
Tel Aviv
2001-2002 Reflexology, aromatherapy and Bach Flowers studies, Medicine College, Beit-Berl
Exhibitions
2018 Look in the eyes, Ken Hakukia, Tel Aviv
2017 Foreign Citizen. Ministry of Construction and Housing, Ramat Gan
(with the artist Yaniv Amar)
2016 Zoom 2016: Young Israeli Artists, Ticho House, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem (with the artist Yaniv Amar)
2015 Washing and Lubrication Service, Ramat Gan (with the artist Yaniv Amar)
2014 Plisha, Ramat Gan (with the artist Yaniv Amar)
2014 Ptitim, Tel Aviv
2014 Washed Away in Bat Yam, curators: Larry Abramson, Joshua Simon
2013 Prints, Haifa University, curator: Sharon Poliakine
2013 Napoleon, Tel Aviv
2011 TABOO, Tel Aviv