born in Israel, 1975
lives and works in Tel Aviv

Hila Laviv chooses the readymades she works with according to their characteristics - not stable, not solid, not impressive, without any aura. In her current work, they are a garbage bag and a string. Laviv cuts and punches holes in the black bags until the hole becomes an entity in itself - a perforated readymade, damaged, collapsing, disappearing. Laviv's method of work is wasteful in essence. A bag that is cut and found to be unsuccessful is tossed into the trash - and thus fulfills its original purpose, the reason it came into the world. From the perspective of the art, the wastefulness is for precision, based on constant questions of dimension, accuracy and redundancy.

The materials and the technique are taken from the world of handicraft and from the everyday arena. The titles of the works sometimes have a stronger presence than the works themselves, which mingle with the inconsequential and obvious. The name of the work hung in the hallway - Live Fence - addresses a fence that contains tension between opaque and visible, and thoughts about the holes between the leaves. Laviv tries to summarize a story for a hole. She wonders about the mechanism of the stories, their breakdown, and the holes they can maintain.