About
Hila Amram is an Israeli artist lives and works in Tel Aviv. Hila received her degree from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem in 2002. Her works been exhibited in some group exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition called "Crystal Garden" has been shown in the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art.
Her work expresses a strong affinity to Nature and wonder at its innovation that are manifested in her exploration of its magic.
Hila makes connections between science and art, communicating with science and integrating pre-modern scientific perceptions with contemporary science. As part of her subjective scientific research, Hila collects and assembles data and materials, conducts experiments, performs hybridizations and grafts, etc., creating contemporary versions of Cabinets of Curiosities (the first art collections that were eclectic collections of objects, set for presentation according to arbitrary principles, without separation between natural and anthropological items).
The "findings" are an invented nature that gives the impression of species that have gone extinct and were only captured and preserved in ancient memory; a memory that was frozen in the familiar home or museum space. The mutants that emerge from these assemblages deal with polarities between natural and artificial, Nature and technology, on representations of Nature in popular and consumer culture, as well as on principle issues such as the intervention of Man in Nature and the realization that Nature is fragile and is on the brink of crisis, to the point of disappearance of phenomena and species.
They evoke contemplation on the emergence of new species that on one hand preserve historical traits in their appearances and behaviors (evolutionary memory), and on the other hand accumulate novel traits that aid their survival in nature and maintain their existence.
Are such creatures possible?
Would they have evolved?
Or have they already gone extinct?
Her work expresses a strong affinity to Nature and wonder at its innovation that are manifested in her exploration of its magic.
Hila makes connections between science and art, communicating with science and integrating pre-modern scientific perceptions with contemporary science. As part of her subjective scientific research, Hila collects and assembles data and materials, conducts experiments, performs hybridizations and grafts, etc., creating contemporary versions of Cabinets of Curiosities (the first art collections that were eclectic collections of objects, set for presentation according to arbitrary principles, without separation between natural and anthropological items).
The "findings" are an invented nature that gives the impression of species that have gone extinct and were only captured and preserved in ancient memory; a memory that was frozen in the familiar home or museum space. The mutants that emerge from these assemblages deal with polarities between natural and artificial, Nature and technology, on representations of Nature in popular and consumer culture, as well as on principle issues such as the intervention of Man in Nature and the realization that Nature is fragile and is on the brink of crisis, to the point of disappearance of phenomena and species.
They evoke contemplation on the emergence of new species that on one hand preserve historical traits in their appearances and behaviors (evolutionary memory), and on the other hand accumulate novel traits that aid their survival in nature and maintain their existence.
Are such creatures possible?
Would they have evolved?
Or have they already gone extinct?