Yaara
Rabinovitch

I am a multidisciplinary artist rooted in architectural and product design studies. My artistic practice grows from these foundations, working with ceramic materials such as plaster, clay, and glass to craft sculptural objects through drawings and modular casting. My work stems from motivated research on the utilitarian use of plates, moving beyond the formal and normative context of standard eating utensils. For me, it is not just another decorative object meant to serve an ancient eating practice. I strip away the inherent essence of the familiar object, returning it to its primal nakedness, and pour layers of intimacy and meaning into it. To me, the plate symbolizes a foundation, a path, a future. I view the plate as a two-dimensional sketch of the material. By using circles and lines, I create a different shape in each work. I then stack the plates one on top of another, floor upon floor, until a tower of plates is formed, revealing the inherent three-dimensionality in the material. The artistic language manifests through the curvature of the circular form and the creation of various variations in levels and heights, employing the technique of modular casting that allows for disassembly and reassembly. The assemblage serves as a freestanding sculpture in space or as a relief. I leave the material in its natural, raw state to draw attention to the form. Light and shadow are the elements that give color to the object, and they change with the hour and the season. The artistic approach combines logic from the brutalist architectural movement and aesthetics from the Bauhaus style, blending minimalism, cleanliness, decorative simplicity, and color uniformity.