YIFTAH PELED
ARTWORK
Recent Portfolio
ARTWORK
FAT SQUARE
Instalation, adipometer (1mx1mx2cm)
2021
Pinned by an adipometer - a calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin - the geometric shape reveals a body surplus. The relationship between the rational form and the excess in the white wall indicates the interface between rational thinking and profit. The accumulation of the economic surpluses through processes of rationalization / colonization.
FAT METER
Solid marble, adipometer (1m x9cm x2cm)
2020
Pinned by an adipometer - a calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin - the white geometric shape reveals a body surplus. The relationship between the rational form and the excess indicates the interface between rational thinking and profit. The accumulation of the economic surpluses through processes of rationalization / colonization.
FAT CUBE
Solid marble cube and adipometer (12x12x12cm)
2020
Pinned by an adipometer - a calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin - the white geometric shape reveals a body surplus. The relationship between the rational form and the excess indicates the interface between rational thinking and profit. The accumulation of the economic surpluses through processes of rationalization / colonization. In the wake of Oiticica's thoughts - "Purity is a myth" - and Foucault - "there is no policy that is not a policy of the body" - everything that surrounds us is mediated by the body, devoured by our senses, and goes through a anthropophagic organicity process.
WHOSE DREAMS?
Object with photographic print (fine art), acrylic, painted wooden base (15x15cm)
2018
A reflection on the production of fiction, its distribution and effects on the societies. The ambiguity of the phrase appeals to what really matters today - "no longer the truth, but the ability to appeal to human emotions and to align statements to meet or even develop collective anxieties", as sociologist Margaret Abraham argues.
The work/message unfolds in different formats (object, multiples, mural).
DISPLACED LANDSCAPE
Digital print (fine art) on a acrylic black frame (40x60cm)
2018
Photomontage, iron ore covering the Vale S.A Company Museum catalog. The museum image is covered with ore dust indicating an environmental disaster. The work refers to the environmental crimes caused by one of the biggest miner company in the world - Vale S.A - and the relationship between cultural institutions and the Artwashing process.
QUAL É SEU DESEJO?
Digital prints with perforation in the image on a black acrylic frame (21x115.5cm)
2018
What Is Your Desire? presents a variety of human desires - intrigue; cry at my feet; disunity....The perforation in the image may suggest a game of moving desires, a place for the viewers's desire or a stillness interval among desires. Produced from wishes boxes of the Candomblé house in Vila Rubim, Vitória ES.
POLISFINGE
Sculpture Multiples in bronze (19x 27x15cm)
2015
The sculpture combines a feline body with a police vehicle. The complete project Turismo Definitivo: escultura pública na Praça da Sé is presented in an environment format that includes a display. The project deals with a fiction: a showroom with a proposal for the installation of a permanent public monumental sculpture to be installed at the Praça da Sé, located in the center of the city of Fortaleza, CE.The golden monument surrounded by would substitute a traditional kinetic sculpture made by a local artist. The bronze sculpture model can be presented separately in an edition of seven multiples.
ARENA VALE TUDO
Acrylic Sculpture (30x30x12cm)
2015
The work consists of a hexagonal mockup of an “all-worth fighting” arena (in Portuguese arena "Vale tudo") whose base has iron ore collected at the miner company Vale S.A in the port of Vitória, ES. The work relates the perverse economical and environmental impacts of the mining with the all-worth fighting .
SUPPORT
Two painted resin sculpture - hands shaped - placed 80 cm above two perforations in the wall (16x7cm)
2015
The installation indicates a relation between the hands and the holes drilled in the wall above them. The body holds the eyes holes. The installation suggests a paradoxical situation of sustaining the void.
JUST IN YOUR EYES
Two photographic prints (fine art) in acrylic black frame (10x13cm)
2007
Two identical photographs give the illusion of two blue eyes. As the viewer approaches, he/she sees the image of a couple. Amelia, the woman in the picture, holds a flashlight illuminating Justin. First observation indicates a play of seeing and not seeing but as one approximates the image is illuminated with the gaze of love.
90 DEGREES
A small installation of a printed picture inside a plastic soap holder (15x18x11cm)
2004
The image shows a nude artist in the Sea of Galilee, in Israel. The set scenario indicates a wasteland with delimitated territories, guard dogs and the gesture of waiting. The mechanism allows one to rotate the image into the box closing the scene within and making it disappear. It indicates the relationship between the boundaries seeing in the set and the physical boundary of the box.
ARTWORK
FAT CUBE
Solid marble cube and adipometer (12x12x12cm)
2020
Pinned by an adipometer - a calliper used to estimate the amount of internal fat by measuring the thickness of a fold of skin - the white geometric shape reveals a body surplus. The relationship between the rational form and the excess indicates the interface between rational thinking and profit. The accumulation of the economic surpluses through processes of rationalization / colonization. In the wake of Oiticica's thoughts - "Purity is a myth" - and Foucault - "there is no policy that is not a policy of the body" - everything that surrounds us is mediated by the body, devoured by our senses, and goes through a anthropophagic organicity process.
WHOSE DREAMS?
Object with photographic print (fine art), acrylic, painted wooden base (15x15cm)
2018
A reflection on the production of fiction, its distribution and effects on the societies. The ambiguity of the phrase appeals to what really matters today - "no longer the truth, but the ability to appeal to human emotions and to align statements to meet or even develop collective anxieties", as sociologist Margaret Abraham argues.
The work/message unfolds in different formats (object, multiples, mural).
DISPLACED LANDSCAPE
Digital paints (fine art) on a acrylic black frame (40x60cm)
2018
Photomontage, iron ore covering the Vale S.A Company Museum catalog. The museum image is covered with ore dust indicating an environmental disaster. The work refers to the environmental crimes caused by one of the biggest miner company in the world - Vale S.A - and the relationship between cultural institutions and the Artwashing process.
QUAL É SEU DESEJO?
Digital prints with perforation in the image on a black acrylic frame (21x115.5cm)
2018
What Is Your Desire? presents a variety of human desires - intrigue; cry at my feet; disunity....The perforation in the image may suggest a game of moving desires, a place for the viewers's desire or a stillness interval among desires. Produced from wishes boxes of the Candomblé house in Vila Rubim, Vitória ES.
POLISFINGE
Sculpture Multiples in bronze (19x 27x15cm)
2015
The sculpture combines a feline body with a police vehicle. The complete project Turismo Definitivo: escultura pública na Praça da Sé is presented in an environment format that includes a display. The project deals with a fiction: a showroom with a proposal for the installation of a permanent public monumental sculpture to be installed at the Praça da Sé, located in the center of the city of Fortaleza, CE.The golden monument surrounded by would substitute a traditional kinetic sculpture made by a local artist. The bronze sculpture model can be presented separately in an edition of seven multiples.
ARENA VALE TUDO
Acrylic Sculpture (30x30x12cm)
2015
The work consists of a hexagonal mockup of an “all-worth fighting” arena (in Portuguese arena "Vale tudo") whose base has iron ore collected at the miner company Vale S.A in the port of Vitória, ES. The work relates the perverse economical and environmental impacts of the mining with the all-worth fighting .
SUPPORT
Two painted resin sculpture - hands shaped - placed 80 cm above two perforations in the wall (16x7cm)
2015
The installation indicates a relation between the hands and the holes drilled in the wall above them. The body holds the eyes holes. The installation suggests a paradoxical situation of sustaining the void.
JUST IN YOUR EYES
Two photographic prints (fine art) in acrylic black frame (10x13cm)
2007
Two identical photographs give the illusion of two blue eyes. As the viewer approaches, he/she sees the image of a couple. Amelia, the woman in the picture, holds a flashlight illuminating Justin. First observation indicates a play of seeing and not seeing but as one approximates the image is illuminated with the gaze of love.
90 DEGREES
A small installation of a printed picture inside a plastic soap holder (15x18x11cm)
2004
The image shows a nude artist in the Sea of Galilee, in Israel. The set scenario indicates a wasteland with delimitated territories, guard dogs and the gesture of waiting. The mechanism allows one to rotate the image into the box closing the scene within and making it disappear. It indicates the relationship between the boundaries seeing in the set and the physical boundary of the box.