Born in 1974, Beer Sheva, IL
Works and lives between Paris, FR & Tel Aviv, IL
The main question driving Amir Nave's artistic research is fundamentally motivated by many approaches to elaborate one distinct thing - Is it possible to deliver something valuable from the present to eternity?
Questions about time, space, boundaries, seclusion, power relationships between people and within a person, trying to break down everything that is unequivocal, are building the framework for the main subject studied by the artist, the pain of consciousness.
In his process, Amir Nave first destroys everything that represents a value, place, morality or limit for him, until all 'life' is gone and only chaos remains. In his works, destruction tells more than construction and the struggle within his painting is connected to the relationship between emptiness and remove 'the' fullness. Emptiness being outside the realm of language can provoke creativity because it is our way of describing something that we cannot fully conceive of. The emptiness on his works also participates in focusing attention on the body and particularly on the head, the central point of his painting.
From here, the artist attempts to rebuild the world once again. There are faded landscapes, in which figures are walking, whose body is a bag of needs - allegories of the decline of the decadent human society in our time.
His figures aim to represent the desire to experience the world, for better or worse. The body is an hourglass and the attempt to confront these springs from the desire not to accept it as absolute but to define it as derived from consciousness.