Maya Aroch / joining Fireflies Project

We are excited to announce that Maya Aroch is the 10th artist (!) joining Fireflies Project. Aroch holds BA from Bezalel Academy of Art (2014) and B. Ed. from the Hebrew University (2015). Aroch’s work is charged with a primeval and ritual vigor. It holds a mysterious and somewhat coded atmosphere referring to an ancient world and at the same time to a contemporary one, turning conceptual questions into sensory and sensual experiences. Combining both two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, nourishing one another, Aroch succeeds in creating rich and versatile installations considering the space as her ‘painting’. In her uncanny worlds she seeks inspiration in archaeological and ritual findings, exploring the ambivalence between words and signs and their concrete meaning to illusionary situations.

Her last solo exhibition was at Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios (2017), and selected group shows were at MoBY Museums of Bat Yam (2019), Alfred Gallery (2019), Alfred Kern Turm and Emma Kreativzentrum, Pforzheim (2017) and the 6th Biennale for Drawing in Jerusalem (2017).

The images here are from Aroch’s shows: The Believers, 2019, MoBY, Bat-Yam (photos by Dor Even-Chen and Tal Nisim); Wa(h)re Angst, 2017, Alfred Kern Turm and Emma Kreativzentrum, Pforzheim, Germany (photos by Janusch Tschech); Changing Room, 2019, Alfred Gallery (photos by Elad Baranga and David Chaki); A Poem and A Promise, 2017, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios (photos by David Chaki). Portrait of Maya Aroch by David Chaki.