My creations are built layer by layer. The initial photograph changes its shape and its meaning and undergoes a transformation into another entity.
The raw material is generally a photo of an organic or abstract item that undergoes a change and merges with other images to create a new story. The story garners content through copying, adding, welding and combining images, creating dramatic and sharp transitions, transparency and emphasis of graphic forms.
The original photo then loses its innocence and neutrality. The content cast into it creates murkiness, roughness, and enigma. The sensation of creating a lack of clarity in an object fascinates me - the loss of its absolute identity and the transition of the object to something mysterious and subject to interpretation and questioning. That direction leads my choice of object and its rendering.
Why am I drawn to take pictures of parts of plants, organic objects and abstract images, but feel that they are not satisfactory or moving enough in and of themselves? I photograph them with the full knowledge that they are but raw material for the next stage. I turn the obvious and the understandable into the unclear and unfathomable. The process that began with the original photograph is completed when a new image is reborn.
Noya
Exhibitions
2017 – “Bread and Roses”, Tel Aviv
2017 – Solo Exhibition “Un - Peaceful - Island”, Four Florentine, Tel Aviv, Curator Avivit Agam-Dali
2017 – Print Fair, Rea’s Print house, Tel Aviv
2017 – “Views”, Group Show, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator Avivit Agam-Dali
2017 – “Personal Touch”, Group Show, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator Tova Eldad
2016 – Levinsky Library art fundraising sale, Tel Aviv, curator Ravit Harari
2016 – “Bread and Roses”, Tel Aviv
2016 - Opening exhibition at the "Red House" , Tel Aviv
2016 -Masterpieces - Contemporary Art Fair - Rosenbach Gallery, Jerusalem
2016 – Abstraction in Photography – Jaffa Port Gallery
2016 – Imagination – The annual fundraising event for the Israel Aids Task Force.
2015 - Traces of the real - group exhibition, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 - Facade - group exhibition, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 - 44Degrees - Israeli Artists Magazine - contemporary art - The Nature
2015 - Tel Aviv Photo Fair
2015 - Art & About - Art Gallery
2009-10 - “All Media 2010” Group Show, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California
2009 – “Made in California” Group Show, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California
2009 – “Northern Exposures” solo exhibition,at the “Coffee Gallery”, Altadena, California
2008-9 - “All Media 2008” Group Show, Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, California
2007- Photography exhibition at the Millard Sheets Gallery at Fairplex, LA, California.
2002-2003 – "Food": Single exhibition. Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts (Sherover Theatre) and Cafe Theo in Tel Aviv.
2001- Photography and architecture exhibition held in Musrara, Jerusalem. Exhibition was conceived by Noya Shiloni and architect Odelia Portugali.
1999- Tel-Hai Museum of Photography and Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts (Sherover Theatre), "Doorstep" Series