Tchellet

Artists: Noa Yafe
Curator: Niv Gafni

The exhibition “Tchellet” by Noa Yafe emerges from the seam between earth and sky, between raw matter and spirit. It opens as a slow journey in a dark space, inviting the body to surrender to a different rhythm of time.

Yafe weaves a deep sensory language, operating between the weight of materials and the aim for lightness and distance. Through layers of traces, images, and hints, an installation unfolds that seeks to pause the gaze, suspend thought, and open an internal space of staying, observation, and transformation.

Yafe engages with the tension between reality and its representation, between the thing and its image. She examines how illusions are accepted as truths and how art can reveal this duality. In her works, she blurs the boundaries between media, but more importantly – she deconstructs the conventions through which we perceive the world. Her inspirations are drawn from various sources, including ideas about reality as an illusion, borrowed from Eastern philosophies and Hasidic tradition.

Her work requires the viewer’s active involvement to complete the experience, offering a space where certainty is undermined and illusion becomes a tool for raising questions about truth, presence, and perception.