Don’t Touch the Cucumber Tray (Detail), Oil, acrylic and ink on linen, 360x470 cm
Don’t Touch the Cucumber Tray
2018, Artist Workshops Tel Aviv
This paintings is the first one in this body of work using cucumber, cucumber pickles and cucumber flowers as the basic unit to design a Persian Rug. The title of the work is a reference to the Iranian hospitality custom of serving fresh cucumbers to guests, usually next to Alcohol. The cucumber bowl is the source of this oil painting on linen. The name "Don't Touch the Cucumber Tray" is a sentence from the song "Can't Play" by Kiosk, an Iranian rock band. The warning in the title is a personal prohibition which points to cultural codes of behaviour.
Installation view at the Artists’ Workshop Tel-Aviv, 2018
Photography: Elad Sarig
Installation view at the Artists’ Workshop Tel-Aviv, 2018
Green Mustache
2019, pencils and watercolors on paper, 40x30 cm
Detail from Don’t Touch the Cucumber Tray
A Cucumber Branch and Green Mustache
Installation view at Turn back, Turn back!, Shulamit Nazarian gallery, LA
The Cucumber Rug
2019, oil and acrylic on linen, 182x101 cm
Installation view at Women Make History, Haifa Museum of Art
Photography: Stas Korolov