The Museum of Subjective Science is a collection of images, drawings, collages, animations, installations and short stories, which have a common research topic: my own self-image and its formation.
I always take on a different 'role' when making work: sometimes I am a woman, sometimes a Jewess, Israeli or migrant. I can be a daughter, granddaughter or mistress. By looking at myself from a different perspective, and by studying my relationships with my relatives or (pre)parents, I tell the same story from different angles, and in this way I shed light on different aspects of my identity and origin.
In the title of the project 'Subjective Science' there is an inner contradiction that I consciously play with. It is impossible to be the researcher and the guinea pig at the same time. But that is what I am trying to do. The use of irony creates distance from myself, and in this way I achieve some objectivity. Also, my images, collages, scenes, animations or short stories are based on years of observations, concrete life experiences, autobiographical facts and self-analysis.
Still, knowing that it is impossible to ever find out the right answer or 'the truth', I continue to produce new work & develop working methods. After all, through something to which there is no definitive answer, spaces are created that can be filled with one's own imagination and idiosyncratic theories. I use, for example, knowledge about psychology, (neuro)biology, Chinese acupuncture or yoga, which I connect in an associative way.
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