Haifa Museum of Art
Einat Arif-Galanti addresses the illusion of the control of time and human deeds – an illusion at the heart of modern perception. By changing the rhythm of the events depicted in her works, the artist offers a meditation on man's way of understanding time and existence.
The foundations of a native Israeli identity are juxtaposed in Arif-Galanti's work with Exilic aesthetics. Her works reflect the intuition that the Exilic "there" has become a part of the native "here." It can be claimed that Israeli art today belongs to the Exilic, Diasporic Jew, as a response to the disintegrating myths of rooted Israeliness.
Born in Jerusalem, 1975; lives and works in Jerusalem