Avinoam Sternheim

Participated in the exhibition “Suicidal Nurit”, Binyamin Gallery

Curator: Elad Yaron

Avinoam Sternheim, Fish, 2025, mixed media, 50CM.

Childlike imagination survives only when it finds a way to exist within adult reality as an undeniable presence. This tension lies at the core of Sternheim’s practice. His sculptures are mechanical and temporary at once, built through acts of dismantling and reassembling fragments of reality into unstable, hybrid forms. These works resemble mechanized creatures that seem to await the presence of a wounded soul—offering comfort through pagan, magical gestures.

Their post-apocalyptic aesthetic moves between children’s theatre and the end of the world: exposed systems of control, power relations, humor, and play, all unfolding within a fragile, broken reality that nonetheless persists.