Sunshine Print

Artist's Statement -------- Edna Dali is a figurative sculptor working in clay, bronze, and porcelain. Her works combine imagination, humour, and emotion, creating poetic figures that balance between fantasy and reality — cities growing from dreams, children floating on petals, and fairy-tale heroines reimagined with depth and tenderness. Through people and nature, she explores memory, identity, and the beauty of human fragility. In my work I have created a metamorphosis of the material, starting with a simple chunk of clay or porcelain, I go on a journey among characters who originate in our existential essence, love, memory, compassion, separation, achievement, learning etc… My creations are an experiment in material, a search for its limits and the integration of other materials such as fabric, metals etc… The works come from an urge to create a world from my imagination which integrates humoristic, fantastic, and day-to-day elements whether proportional or not. I try to challenge the observer to use the power of their imagination to create interest, curiosity, and introduce them to a different world. Clay and porcelain are the main materials I use. All of the creations go through a firing process at high temperatures, some are glazed, and some include color, real gold and lace.--------------- Edna Dali is part of the prevailing tendency in contemporary art of breaking down barriers between different categories of art, between art and reality and between art and crafts...Through her characters, she makes statements, confront questions and touches upon personal-excitement from within as well communal problems.Her special works of art express an open-eyed approach, a love of truth, a sense of humor as well as a need for precision and accuracy....Edna Dali introduces us to a magical, vibrant, aesthetic world." written by Dr. Dalia HakkerOrion (Curator) Since 2006, after 25 years of sculpting dolls, Edna Dali has begun creating one-of-a-kind sculptures, made entirely from high temparture clay. This new method is revealed in the collections 'Circus of Life' and 'Edgar' in which she transforms the art of sculpture to showcase periods, situations and philosophical & human truths.In the 'Circus of Life' series Edna present reality in a slightly disguised way. Through her grotesque and exaggerated figures she reflects the search of equilibrium. While "Edgar" basically represents each of us. The "little man" who has been given the simple right to exist.