Liat Danieli
Liat Danieli, born in 1983, graduated with honors from the art and education program of HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. She is a multi-disciplinary installation artist, specializing in installations that incorporate sound, sculpture, video, digital media, and bio art. Liat is a member in Alfred gallery since 2019. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.
The connection between science and art has always been a significant part in her artistic practice. For her, science seeks answers where art asks questions. Danieli's practice centers on material research, in which she creates hybridization of synthetic and organic materials, at times blurring the line between the two.
One of the goals in her work is to make materials emanate vitality, to give them eternal life by deciphering their underlying mechanisms. Sometimes she establishes artificial conditions in order to grow different forms of life, and other times she only emulates these conditions symbolically. By transporting the artist’s studio into the laboratory, in her art Danieli explores questions surrounding the artist's creative space and art’s action space.
Danieli often collaborates with artists from different disciplines, scientists, and in fact – makers and creators of every kind. With that, she turns the space of creation and collaboration into her own petri dish and subject of research, while generating mutual creative fertilization. Danieli opens a door to the changing dimension of the unknown, allowing flexibility in her work, with the understanding that art is not a one-dimensional binary field.
In her recent installation works, Danieli focused on the examination of fungi and bacteria while creating time-dependent interventions in materials, and using time as a formative variable. She is particularly fascinated with super organisms, bees, fungi and bacteria and their synchronized behavior, almost as that of an individual living organism. This behavior is the basic principle that allows her to explore them as a material that follows a predetermined mechanism.