When a Circles Becomes a Sun

Artists: Veronique Inbar
Curator: Neta Moses

The exhibition “When a Circle Becomes a Sun” by artist Veronique (Vero) Inbar is built around durational paintings — moving, evolving images projected across the space of the Artists’ Studios. Vero explores the way simple shapes — a circle, a square, a line — transform into loaded images. When does a circle become a sun? What turns a square with a triangle on top of it into a house?

Veronique (Vero) Inbar is a visual artist and a lecturer in cinema and film editing. In her works, she combines painting, video, and photography. Her works deal with practices of revelation and concealment, and she examines and challenges traditional modes of expression in the visual languages in which she operates. Throughout her years of activity in the spaces between cinema and visual art, she uses a rich and diverse set of tools to visually and philosophically explore the formation of the image. The image stands at the center of her language – abstract, ritualistic, yet surprisingly personal. She regards it as relational – something born out of a social context, rather than from an independent essence. She strives for a precise yet sensitive minimalism, one that holds within it hints of a narrative without dictating it.

Neta Moses, the curator of the exhibition, is a video and installation artist and a computer scientist. Her works include installations and video performances, short films, workshops, and lectures for the general public, and examine the tension between the virtual world and the real world, as well as the relationships we have with screens in our lives.

The exhibition “When a Circle Becomes the Sun” seeks to return to the simple, the primal, the almost childlike, in order to question it anew. This exploration converges on a formal-existential question: how is an image created? And when, if at all, can a single line transform into a painting, or a world? The works in the exhibition examine the formation of the image through a range of manual and technological actions, and through the engagement with the fundamentals of form and color. The fact that artificial intelligence fails precisely in producing the most basic images — a house or a sunset — raises a question about the essence of the image, and what visual knowledge is. Between human intuition and technological processing, images imbued with mythical weight create together an open world with an internal rhythm, a slow and breathing space where the image retains the traces of human touch even when it is created with digital tools. The dialogue between these worlds – the human and the digital – creates a space where the image is not a final product but an open question about its formation, its impact, and how we give it life and meaning.