MIRABELLA
'' I am standing here in front of you. I can move my right hand. I can move my left hand. My head turns. My lips can move. And I can sing [...] Every day I go to sleep.
I disappear in darkness. Then wake up to another day. '' [Excerpts from the video Mirabella - Deborah Sfez- 2015]
Mirabella is both the alter ego of Deborah Sfez and any one of us.
Through her (self) portraits (photo and video), the artist is in search of identities, her identity, her history, ours.
The multiplicity of her portraits and places in which they are staged are not linked to a particular space, or at a particular time. This is for the artist to gather every moment of life, from childhood to today to contain the sum of experiences that make her and us what we are today.
From the world of theater and fashion, Deborah Sfez uses costumes or decorations in physical installation to convene situations, both strange and familiar around the intimate, the body and its fragility.
By these staging, as by the carvings and collages, she proceeds to a deconstruction of appearances into dramatic or comic scenes. It brings us to become the observer of scenes that challenge, embarrass or make us smile, as are doing the clowns, to mock the society and its defects.
She uses the body, her body as a communication tool, almost as a remote object, reflecting her own life or life in general until the parody. She thus tries to reflect the positive and negative elements of our existence and to confront us with them.
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Curators: Daniella Talmor [independant curator, former curator in chief at Haifa museum of Art] / Margalit Berriet/ Marie-Cécile Berdaguer.