Carmit Hassine

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel

Artist statement

Carmit Hassine – artist statement In my artworks, I evoke questions regarding the limitations of the body, and at the same time, I emphasize the limitless possibility of art and thought. My images start from bodily associations and my starting point when choosing materials is using allied-health oriented objects, used originally as assistance to a body, as well as collecting natural and industrial oriented objects. My working process includes making cast templates from a physical body, and as the creation process progresses, the image expands, distances and transform. When encountering the material, I try to be in motion through perceptual freedom, removing all self-control, and being dedicated to the artistic process. I pay attention to the substance, mass, and the changes in the material itself. This process result images which relies on their own “past” and memories, and carry a visual genetic cargo, which has been transformed into another shape, value, and parameter. This transformation allows me to create a hybrid of body-to-body, and organic-body with an artificial substance. Sometimes it is an image, which resembles an organ, or an impractical prosthesis that cannot be identified. In other times, it lays in the border between a relic of an authentic body, to its illustrative substance presence, allowing duality and a room for interpretation. Compared with those works, in which the shape has been transformed from the “original” object, I also create works that have...

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