Ami
Raviv

My works combine both painting and sculpture. First, I draw my silhouette on industrial wood surfaces, then carve out the signature of my body, and finally, I cover it with linoleum and create fields of color on top. These works express an ongoing investigation of body memory and its concrete and metaphorical embedment in its environment. The results is an elusive and abstract geography, both familiar and foreign. These maps portray an imaginary topography of possible landscapes and, at the same, time inherit the most intimate - the artist׳s body, from which they originate and are then recast. The object range from rigidity to movement, from an industrial color palette to a material one, from minimalism to performative sculpture, from ready-made to conceptualization, and from industrial materials and everyday forms, such as doors and appliances, to abstract compositions. In my works, I examine the concept of three-dimensional space versus the two-dimensional surface of the map as an expression of the ideological-political, cultural, and artistic tension inherent in the idea of mapping. The sculptural paintings are both anthropomorphic and scenic. The body marks manifest as exposed ancient gorges and mountains, inviting the viewer to walk within and explore them. At the same time, they are abstracted from any image, offering themselves as a meeting and confrontation between the softness of wrinkles and twists, and the changing energies of color.