Sara Peled Art  ​שרה פלד

Like an acrobat on a tight rope

 

The values that lay at the heart of my study, are the interrelations between shapes and colors, motion and static, abundant and void.

 

In my black, grey and white series, I speak in a type of documentary, journalistic-like language. This enables me to express, in a metaphoric way, a personal and intimate world layered with topics associated with the fear of growing old. The work is done on a table while standing, with my hands serving from time to time as paintbrushes.

This series researches the metaphoric and physical ashes that line the arteries and can lead to a heart attack. At the same time, ashes are all that are left of my family that was killed in the Holocaust.

 

In another series, I try to express my unresolved inner conflicts regarding the status of women at home and in society. By using digital media, such as building new forms and repetitions, I am able to translate my personal frustrations into cultural-social criticism, primarily of the method and the way in which women are treated as inferior to men.

 

In the act of drawing I see the contradiction between control and lack of control. Thus for me drawing feels like a movement that is both backwards and forwards, a search for confidence, like an acrobat walking on a high wire.