Yaara Oren | Sensible Wishes
Curator: Smadar Schindler

"Sensible Wishes," Yaara Oren's new solo exhibition, features two collections of works: oil paintings on canvas and oil paintings on paper, distinguished by the central role played by the paper works.

In the "Sensible Wishes" exhibition, Oren observes the everyday, small images and moments that she unravels, crafting semi-abstract paintings based on lines and smudges. These create a reality that exists in the fragile space between dreaming and wakefulness, and between the hidden and the illuminated. The use of lines, whether thin and delicate or thick and bold, gives the works a sense of dynamism and an internal rhythm. In contrast, the strong color smudges add a raw dimension that creates a counterweight to the lines, powerfully and deeply disrupting the order. While the canvas works are characterized by large, neat, clean color fields, the paper works have a playful, material character that is unbound by rules, more experimental and wild.

The dialogue between layers, the contrasts between reality and dream, and between material and form, allow Yaara Oren to express complex, layered emotions through this body of work, making a unique artistic language present.