Roee Suffrin

Our times and societies rely greatly on the power embedded in images. The spectrum of transmission possible through imagery is indeed enormous. What we “receive” from the images around us I try to use and broaden through my artwork. In this way, known forms of art are referenced. I try to infuse the visuality that we know with a new and multi-faceted message; a multi-layered dispatch, with each single work. I employ the lighter elements of a logographic society to re-create the heavier forms and projections of traditional arts. Archetypal forms and common kinds of imagery are combined and re-interpreted to convey complex, but clear ideas. And not only ideas. On a blind spot in the collision between familiar styles, a new and elusive charm appears. Mobius-ring narratives unfold through the making. The existence of religiosity in the very heart of the scandalous mechanisms of the everyday is a fascinating reality. I draw from different origins. From East and from West - according to my own sources in Persia and in the palaces of Berlin.

Solo Exhibitions: 2010 - Screen Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 - Through the Mirrors of our Daily Dufour Gallery, Jerusalem 2008 - Elevation Iranian Gallery, Jerusalem 2007 - The Art of Life The New Gallery, Jerusalem Selected Group Exhibitions: 2011 Walter Benjamin’s Phantasmagoria Kaleidoscope Artforum, Berlin 2008 Surface Fractures Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem 2008 The Bottom Line The Gallery of Daila Saloon, Jerusalem 2008 Sublime Now Hannina Gallery, Jaffa, Israel 2008 Mega-style Hakita Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv 2007 Damka Zik Gallery, Jerusalem 2007 Secret Art Mannie House, Tel Aviv 2007 Desert Generation Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem 2007 Rashomon Gallery at Key College, Be’er Sheva; The New Gallery, Jerusalem 2006 Teddy Bears Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem 2004 Selectives Cinemateque, Jerusalem 2003 He’arat Shulayim 6 David Citadel Museum, Jerusalem 2002 He’arat Shulayim 4 Underground Prisoners' Museum, Jerusalem 2002 Final Exhibition Graduate Program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

Education 1998-2002 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem