Bio

Chen Heyah Peles started her creative path from the studio potter discipline through ceramic art objects and gradually expanded into creating abstract objects and paintings created out of a wide range of materials such as clay, mud, plastic, seeds, seed pods, cardboards, wool, washed away ready mades.

Artist's Statement

My work strives to present new perceptions of inner meanings, value and inner right to exist. I am aiming to create from a place that holds the magic that arrives only when we are willing to let go and lose our comfort zone. My best creations come from a place of complete mismatch when I am willing to give up on the ‘nice’ form - twist it/tear it/break it/smash it and only then, bring it back together in a different form. I use a wide range of materials because each one of them is symbolic and their unreasonable combination allows me to express more layers of meanings. My goal is to let the observer go through a personal journey of new perceptions that might shake its solid reality and stability.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024 — 'Collections', Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
• 2008 — 'Young Material', Shay Aryeh Gallery, Tel Aviv