About

Orly Sever produces sculptural installations that open up a mentalscape encoded in matter. A persistent ritual act leaves in the material charged traces that combine fear, pain, threat, and desperation as well as defiance, in opposition to submissive acceptance and head bowing. In Sever’s current installation, blackness has a strong material presence. Black tar is smeared on the walls as well as on an object at the center of the space, which may be seen as a bunker or bomb shelter, a grave, or a lift-off surface.
The title of Sever’s current project, Wall Run, implies danger and pain which are …