Dreaming High - paintings, 1994-1996 — NILI FEFERBERG ARTIST

In my early days at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

In these works, by using a repetition of circles and lines the paintings in Dreaming High comprehend the canvas as a space where organic symmetrical and asymmetrical fields are intertwined. This is done by blurring the boundaries between the background and the foreground as the forms are layered on top of each other, playing with the macro and micro imagery of what could be nature and artifice.

In many of my paintings, circles create boundaries within an empty space, the canvas. In these paintings multiple circles act as a veil, concealing the empty space to create an illusion of an unfamiliar landscape, out of time and place.

“I was never interested in metaphors, symbolism or representation but in painting that has its own wish and an internal dialogue with its agents: the quality and the movement of the paint, the canvas and with my experience of a dream-like world,” says Nili Feferberg.