born in Israel, 1969
lives and works in Tel Aviv

Noa Tavori arranges household objects as a backdrop of a familiar setting. The viewer is not sure what is so familiar and what is so disturbing - the objects, the atmosphere, the setting? By replicating the familiar and almost boring setting (and it is unclear whether it is familiar from reality or from a movie scene), Tavori creates defamiliarization and distance. What seems homelike and insignificant when it appears one time, becomes threatening when it appears twice, and even more frightening when it becomes clear that the threat lies within what is close and familiar. The two-fold arrangement of the objects seems to ask to suspend the moment
while also intensifying it. The inanimate, collapsing nature gradually accumulates into a portrait of a female figure, which generates the event and drives the stories and the environment.