body.motion.etch (2025), Artists Studios/Art Cube, Jerusalem (solo exhibition)
Curation: LeeHe Shulov
In Collaboration with Goethe Institute Israel
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body.motion.etch explores an embodied conversation on sexuality that reaches beyond heteronormative language. The work delves into the essence of bodily expression through lithographic performance and acoustic research, exploring the traces, prints, and residues that bodies leave of themselves. In this project, the body isn’t just a subject—it becomes the drawing tool itself, where lithography’s traditional boundaries are intentionally transgressed.
Typically, in lithography, artists meticulously avoid contact with the plate, guarding it against accidental marks left by oils or sweat. Here, however, these “accidents” become the medium. Using aluminum cans that have been transformed into lipophilic materials, the artist tiled a stage designed for performative engagement and dance. Stripped of industrial coating, the can’s surface becomes an intimate ground for capturing the nuances of touch. Microphones inside the stage record its sonic dimension. Sounds such as the slide of oil or the patter of sweat combine to become a layered soundscape, a breath of body meeting metal, marking a sensuous and vulnerable dialogue with the self and others.
Each impression embodies the resonance and dissonance of the participants’ identities and experiences, the marks and sounds illustrating a bodily narrative that defies conventional language. The collection of these conversations forms an archive of multi-sensory exchange. The exhibition invites the viewer to witness a moment of embodied communication—a conversation that, instead of being spoken, is etched directly from the body onto metal, creating a visceral, textured expression that can be experienced in a multi-sensorial manner.
Dedicated to sustainable printmaking techniques, the artist considers the quality of everyday materials whose properties can hold the explorative needs of this project, also hoping to inspire new ways of practicing traditional techniques such as lithography and new opportunities to transform them into communicative ways of seeing human interaction.
body.motion.etch is a creative manifesto—rooted in transformation, connection, and care. Repurposing everyday materials like aluminum cans into lithographic plates, the project invites us to reconsider waste as a possibility, where resourcefulness becomes both medium and message. The ephemeral nature of these materials echoes the impermanence of our own marks, urging a deeper awareness of how we engage with the environment.
At the same time, the work’s focus on bodily expression and transformation also invites a nuanced conversation about gender. The work is a product of collaborations with different women in Jerusalem that challenge traditional hierarchies in art-making by positioning the body—not as a passive subject but as an active, expressive tool. The act of imprinting the body’s marks onto the material itself can be seen as a metaphor for how gender is not only performative but also deeply rooted in physicality and materiality.
Through workshops and performances, this work cultivates a shared space for dialogue—where bodies, identities, and communities intersect. Each print and gesture becomes a resonant thread in a larger narrative, weaving together voices and stories that shape a shared artistic dialogue.
