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Transparent feels

Avital Chalemsky is interested in how emotions are expressed through movement. In her final thesis at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, she developed a process for moulding movements of the body and transferring them into pieces of jewellery: she soldered small plates of fine silver together to create three-dimensional objects and combined this with textile metal techniques. During the scholarship, Avital continued this work, researching and experimenting with the techniques.
The pieces created in Pforzheim express a longing for home. Fingers as a mirror of emotions are a central element of "Transparent feels"; she plays with them, abstracts them and arranges them choreographically. In this way, she creates a series of powerful pieces of jewellery that allow the viewer to experience her strong feelings during the three-month scholarship period.


Avital Chalemsky

Avital Chalemskyborn in Jerusalem in 1991, studied jewellery at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, she received the "Romi Shapiro Judaica Award". In 2017, her work was exhibited at the International Graduate Show of Galerie Marzee in Nijmengen, the Netherlands, at the "gallery of Art" in Legnica, Poland, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland.