Dafna Rehavia

Lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Artist statement

Dafna Rehavia www.dafnarehavia.work Dafna Rehavia is a mixed media artist and an art-psychotherapist. Alternate between her home town Tel-Aviv and Pittsburgh PA. In her artistic journey she has explored existential and identity struggles from personal and sociocultural perspectives. She examines metaphors of the body-self as a site of injury. Her found-art and installations respond to the ways authoritative discourses trap and control the body-self. Transitions has a strong effect on her practice. Earth and sand emerged in her installations, representing temporariness and transformation. Rehavia merges her art practice with psychological research as can be seen in her last art exhibition: Binds & Bonds https://www.alphabetcity.org/events/binds-bonds-symbolic-somatic-experience-presented-by-boom-concepts/ Rehavia exhibited in solo and group shows in Tel-Aviv, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New-York, Boston, Amsterdam, and Wurzburg. In New York she was awarded the Chelsea International Fine Arts award for her work Cutting. In 2019 she had an art residency in Wurzburg, Germany resulting in the works Collective Memory, and Reconciliation. She exhibited in the Fiber Art International with her art addressing Female Genital Mutilation. In 2020 Rehavia exhibited in New York in the Immigrant Artist Biennale in which she presents IV.ID. Installation, questioning identity and healing, in “Here Together! Mother Tongue” virtual2020.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com/ - and had an art residency...

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