The work of Vered Lahav offers us an insight into her unique perspective on the world; reflections on the contemporary city, modernist architecture, human relationships, gender roles, sexuality, notions of beauty, memory, childhood and fairy tales.
She refers to herself as a female flâneur, she wanders the streets, observing people, watching, absorbing, and filters these sights and sounds. This alchemistic filtering process results in sublime, paired down statements; saying so much but using a minimalist aesthetic. Yet within this apparent simplicity lies the power of her work. The image stays with us, creeps under our skin, penetrates our thoughts, as we turn the work over and over in our mind.
Her work is characterised by a strong visual identity. Common elements include a central composition, often depicting a single object or figure, a concern with material and texture and the use of a limited colour palette, white, black and grey but the dominant use of white is striking.
Sleepless, like Vered’s previous exhibitions, functions as a multi-media installation; a collage of mixed media fragments, of texture, colour and form, architecturally placed to set up critical juxtapositions within the ever dominant pure white walls of the white cube gallery space.
Kate Pryor, Exhibition Curator Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
