Almost imperceptibly, a crack, an opening appears, and a little indulgence springs out to announce a new beginning.

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Katrin Tolkovsky's fantastical world revolves around purification and rejuvenation through processes of fragmentation and engraving. In her first solo exhibition, the artist combines diverse media (painting, video, sculpture, and sound), manifesting a remarkable synthesis of touch and expression.

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Katrin uses the traditional sgraffito technique – applying layers of plaster and paint and scratching the top layer while it's still wet – to expose contrasting layers of material and color. Tolkovsky paints and plasters the painting recursively. The painting emerges from within the wall, revealing a layer teeming with fractured vitality that transforms into a source of beauty and solace. The canvas – raw and crucified – is nailed to the wall like an organic skin, almost human. It unravels and crumbles, shedding its layers to reveal traces of life that evolve with time. Past and present interweave to form delicate scars of grace and rejuvenation.

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Her creative process, grounded in destruction and revealment, mirrors an endless pursuit of elusive truth and emerging meaning. Her works navigate between imagery and abstraction, between nature and the imaginary, gravitating toward threshold spaces (strange flora and disembodied organs) and resonating in memory as traces of ancient archetypes. The sound work and music production were designed and composed by Eran Hadar and Ohad Koski.

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The ceramic sculptures present ritualistic and protective creatures. In them, fantastic nature takes on a form, assumed by mystical hybrids that represent moments of purification and healing. A sound emerges from within, bringing a dimension of vitality and fluidity, creating a dialogue between their static external form and internal vivacity. The sound work and music production were designed and composed by Eran Hadar and Ohad Koski.

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"Motions" invites viewers on an intimate voyage through time, fragments, and rejuvenation. It calls us to listen to our inner resonances, as individuals and as a society, to see incompleteness as a space for discovery, and to embrace the hope that glimmers through the cracks.

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Keren Yeala-Golan