In Naomi Safran-Hon’s first exhibition at the RX Gallery, entitled “Soft Power”, the Israeli artist gives an insight into her work, in which she blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, between the real object and its image. To do so, she condenses on the canvas a process of oppositions between materials and techniques: concrete and lace, painting and photography, barbed wire and fabrics. The materiality of the work and the different textures almost make her canvases tip over into sculpture. When you get a little closer, you understand that the artist is taking an intimate look at her native Haifa, through the questions of domesticity and home, war and exile, memory and history. As she summarizes, ”This is a group of paintings that deal with our relationship to the environment, both to nature and the built landscape, but also about how our lives are affected by external events.”


Soft Power

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