Inbal Cohen Hamo
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Fire | 2024 | Pigment ink on archival paper
Inbal Cohen Hamo
Multidisciplinary artist | Photography | Sculpture | Engages in the tension between the natural and the artificial, and explores the remnants of reality
Fire | 2024 | Pigment ink on archival paper
ABOUT
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The everyday reality that surrounds us intrigues me with its randomness and absurdity. I explore its physical remnants and the images it leaves behind. Engaging directly with reality inherently carries a political dimension—every object and image I select holds its own history, a cultural gaze embedded in its origins, and a new perspective that I construct through it.
One of my central inquiries is the space between the natural and the artificial. I view nature/culture as a single, intertwined environment—what we call “natural” is deeply shaped by human intervention, while human-made objects inevitably undergo processes of erosion and decay.
My practice moves between material and digital realms, from sculpture and casting to photography and scanning. I do not believe in absolute "truth"—every image and artwork is, to me, a challenge to the notion of a fixed and stable reality. Even in media traditionally seen as "reality-replicating," such as photography and casting, I suggest an unstable world—a fragile membrane stretched over the real (in Lacanian terms). The possibility of rupture, of surface cracks and the dissolution of order, is always present.
Graduated from the Hamidrasha School of Art in 2019.
Holds an MFA from the University of Haifa, 2022.
Member of Pedart, a feminist-queer artists' collective.
Writes about art and culture for Portfolio magazine.