Miriam Cabessa

The exceptional beauty and merit of Cabessa's "slow action painting" has been internationally acknowledged since 1997 when she represented Israel at the Venice Biennale. Over the past two decades, she has perfected the technique of dragging metal combs, Tallit (Jewish prayer shawls), and keffiyeh (headscarves symbolic of Palestinian independence) in movements dictated by controlled breathing. Cabessa is known for large-scale patterned artworks whose intensely haptic creation is inseparable from the final product. Her artistic lineage includes Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, and Yves Klein, while her paintings reflect a background in photography, and reference the alluvial sensuality of Robert Mapplethorpe.