Leah Larisa Bunshaft

# Dizlarka - Artist & Designer

The core element of my artistic practice is the experience of facing an insecure world, of being aware of my own vulnerability. This is my personal experience, and at the same time a universal one. In my paintings, I strive to create a mythologised world in which one can visualise a peaceful serenity and reconciliation with the world. In my virtual spaces danger is sublime, abstracted, and not really at all threatening. Unfolding vulnerability, turning it into an object of contemplation, I invite my viewer to perform a mental experiment and do the same with their own experience.

When creating and assembling a virtual mythogenic environment from fragments, I draw on the experience of surrealist thinking where meaning and particular aesthetics are seen in a defamiliarised form.

At the same time, I have inherited from the impressionist style, from the plasticity of the image, thanks to which the eye seems to be absorbed by the depicted world, while the imagination adds to it, giving it density, vividness and tangibility. For me this freedom of pictorial painting, open to dialogue with the viewer, is extremely important. I augment my practice with artefacts, found objects, integrating elements of meticulous craftsmanship into the painting. Each detail is like a singularity - it opens up new potential interpretations and sensations to the viewer's encounter with the painting.

In channelling my practice into a central topic of vulnerability, the fragility of the human, I explore visual culture and its interpretations, temporality practices, and the cycle structure that defines the dynamics of life itself. I am interested in the ways these separate threads intertwine, discovering common rhythmic shapes and resemblances.

Thus, I see time as a special entity, which I express symbolically in my paintings, whereas in my personal experience it is associated with a feeling of insecurity, of being unable to control my own life. Within this context I see the very human approach revealed in the constant striving to arrange and streamline the flows of time, to create a perfect computational intelligence. The element remains invincible, the human intention persists through the centuries and this opposition forms such a shaky and tense balance that is close to the experience of life itself.

Accumulating a variety of topics in the aesthetics of enigmatic realism, I invariably turn to an introspective optics. My art is an experience of seeing myself, sculpting my own identity, tracing the lines of femininity in my Self and my perception. The issue of identity is particularly important to me because, as a global person, I have long been deprived of a direct and singular belonging to a local culture. And this is another common symptom of our times.

Solo Exhibitions:
2022 - "Kaleidoscope", Solo Exhibition, Business Centre "Azrieli", Holon, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - "Flying in dreams and real life", Creative Space (Barcelona, Spain, curator Sergey Voynovsky)
2024 - "Dreams & Nightmares", Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge (London, United Kingdom, curators Anthony Fawcett and Katheryn Turner)
2024 - "Gifts of creative awareness", Hot spot (Barcelona, Spain, curator Sergey Voynovsky)
2024 - "ArtOnLoop Barcelona", The Holy Art Gallery, digital art show (Barcelona, Spain)
2024 - "Aura", virtual exhibition and digital show in 2 galeries (London and New York)
2023 - "Art Show in Times Square", Expo Metro (New York, United States, curator Rudolf Van Valkenburg)
2023 - "All Members 11", Artist House (Rishon Le Zion, Israel, curators Pnina Sarig and Vivian Birkenfeld)
2023 - "Muses on the move", Ulpan Etzion (Haifa, Israel, curators Vira Gailis and Dasha Ilyashenko)
2023 - "Barcelona 2023", Expo Metro (Barcelona, Spain, curator Rudolf Van Valkenburg)
2023 - "New Friends", Artist House (Rishon Le Zion, Israel, curator Eti Vider Varzer)
2023 - "Group Exhibition 15", Cultural Center (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Gad Ben Horin)
2023 - "Green Peace", Cinematheque (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Ella Rozenberg)
2023 - "Stories", Gallery "Vinogradov" (Berlin, Germany, curator Ella Rozenberg)
2023 - "About Women and Femininity", Centre of the Technologies and Art
(Ramat Gan, Israel, curator Dr. Avivit Agam Dali)
2023 - "Paintings on a Glass Ceiling", ZOA (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Moran Jacobi)
2023 - "In This Winter", Gallery "On the lake" (Raanana, Israel, curator Rachel Zio)
2022 - "Home", Art Centre (Petah Tikva, Israel, curator Daniela Pinhasov)
2022 - "Life in Future", Gallery "Creators" (Yafo, Israel, curator Birliant Davydov)
2022 - "Under the Mask of Fame", Jaffa theatre (Yafo, Israel, curator Ella Rozenberg)
2022 - "What is Love", Gallery "On the lake" (Raanana, Israel, curator Alona Shleypak)
2021 - "7th Annual Figures & Faces Art" online exhibition, Fusion Art
2021 - "A goddess in every woman", Cultural Center (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Alona Shleypak)
2021 - "Revival", Cultural Center (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Dobrinka Encheva)
2021 - "Timeless Beauty" (Yafo, Israel, curator Dobrinka Encheva)
2020 - "Pushkin's Tales" Cultural Center (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Alona Shleypak)
2019 - "Parallel Worlds", Contemporary Art Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Olisia Romanov)
2019 - "New Israel Artists", Contemporary Art Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel, curator Olisia Romanov)

Leah Larisa Bunshaft # Dizlarka - Artist & Designer

Leah Larisa Bunshaft

# Dizlarka - Artist & Designer