To Fold and Flee – Shahar Yahalom

A conversation with the artist and the artist Hillel Roman about the narrowed range of sight and control during a crisis, and a drawing workshop on carbon paper to expand imagination.

Shahar Yahalom received a BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. She is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha. Yahalom’s practice oscillates between sculpture and drawing, creating compositions that challenge the familiar hierarchical relationships between human, animal, plant, and object. Yahalom’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. 

Hillel Roman is an artist and a senior lecturer at the Midrasha, The Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College. Roman graduated with a bachelor’s degree in literature from Tel Aviv University and has an MFA in visual arts from Goldsmiths College London. In his works, Roman deals with various aspects of the relationship between the political and the visual order, and focuses his work on large-scale charcoal drawings and participatory public installations. His works are in major collections, and he exhibited in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, in major galleries and museums.