Artists

Limor Klein Tivoli, born in 1979, lives and creates in the western Negev, in Moshav Yevul, located in the Gaza Envelope region.
She holds a B.Ed. degree with honors from the Beit Berl College School of Art. Limor is both an artist and an art teacher, and was awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship in 2004.

She works with a variety of artistic techniques and media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and occasionally video art.

Her main focus is the depiction of body and landscape as expressions of shifting states of consciousness. Limor draws inspiration from her home environment, from maps and aerial photographs, from illustration, pop culture, cinema, and in some works, she also engages in a dialogue with the history of art.

Her works explore mental and emotional states of control versus loss of control, and the connection to home, land, and landscape. To what extent do we have control over the reality of our lives? What are the reciprocal relationships between us, the landscape, the place, and the culture that feeds us? What lies beneath the surface, and what lies above it? What layers make up the reality of our lives? How willing are we to confront those layers that form the physical matter of our existence?

Her artworks are often made up of numerous “patches” using diverse techniques, styles, and materials that don’t naturally blend into a unified whole. These works raise questions about imagery and its representation—decoding the image as one would a map with its own unique system of signs and symbols. The viewer is invited to decipher these codes through the encounters and interactions formed between them.

Through her treatment of surface and physical space, questions arise regarding territory, belonging, stability, boundaries, and control. The physical, material aspect is not truly present—it merely echoes as remnants of memory. The engagement with surface and the delineation of spaces resonates with archaeological digs and findings, offering further clues.