The project of my life - roses
“I didn’t come out of your ribcage; rather you came out of my Vagina.” Antonymous
My ”Daydreaming” series of paintings explores the potential for storytelling and aesthetics in everyday situations. Whether real or imagined, each painting captures a moment from my daily life, with a particular focus on my most significant identity-being a mother. By choosing to paint private situations, I aim to engage viewers and encourage them to feel a sense of connection with their own private moment
Inbar Hasson- artist statements- (short)
I am disturbed and concerned by the general numbness in our society, and through art I seek to punch this drowsiness that we can’t afford.
I believe that a work of art first and foremost evokes in us a physical sensation. A feeling which we later label with names.
When creating I think about the physical experience and body sensation I would like the work to evoke. The experiences may be the result of discomfort, confusion or disorientation. Is the image funny or grotesque? Is it suppressed rage or apathie? This zone of “in-betweenness” is my playground.
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Inbar Hasson -Artist statement
I am disturbed and concerned by the general numbness in our society.
In art I seek to punch/address this drowsiness that we can’t afford.
I am a multidisciplinary artist with an educational background in figurative painting, interior architecture and Middle East studies. This background has shaped my practice. My painting training provided me with technical skills to execute my ideas. My interior architecture experience along with sensitivity and fascination with composition helps me to create my “narrative spaces.” Finally, my academic education and my interest in history and socio-political matters – a knowledge that arouses in me restlessness – floods me with stories and ideas that I want to share.
I believe that a work of art first and foremost evokes in us a physical sensation. A feeling which we then label with names, emotions that we describe with words. Concrete thoughts and ideas follow later. My painting practice is very physical, the choice of a large scale is very sincere. It stems from a physical need, and from the personal satisfaction it involves. When I create, I think about the physical experience and body sensation I would like the work to evoke.
These experiences may be the result of discomfort, confusion, embarrassment or disorientation. Is the image funny or grotesque? What brings these two figures together? Is it suppressed rage or apathie? This zone of “in-betweenness” is my playground.
I am attracted to strength and impact, and I am consciously focused on how I could capture the viewer’s attention through my art, and how I could create for her a space to feel.
I ask myself: Have we really become what Simon Anholt calls ”cultural psychopaths”?
How did we become so numb towards each other? Do we actually feel ourselves?
Inbar Hasson, short bio
With a background in interior design and Middle-Eastern studies, multi-disciplinary artist Inbar Hasson has lived and worked in the Netherlands since 2011. As a graduate of the Wackers Academy of Arts in Amsterdam, Hasson devoted herself to large-scale painting and collage, in which she seeks a tension between an appealing visual storytelling and a sense of discomfort and disorientation. Both confronting and seducing, she demands from the viewer an active gaze, rewarded with an emotional impact. Recently, Hasson has been developing a series of new projects under the title Background Check, where she focuses on notions of social inequality
Hasson currently exhibiting in Arte Laguna prize Venice, in the past in she exhibited in the Netherlands, New York and Israel in both solo and group shows