Zeeat Zahav
Rakafet Viner Omer
2022
Accompanied catalog to the 'Gold Sweat' exhibition presented at the Rawart Gallery in 2022.
Once the firmament and earth were separated, a controversy was born.* Be it political disagreement or poetic indecision, either beginning with physical division or ending with subjugation to bounds and limitations, its implicit or explicit conditioning is one and the same – a product of the life of an indigenous person against that of the Other.
Rakefet Viner-Omer says that while working on her painting Golden Sweat, she was absorbed in reading Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s novel The Bridal Canopy. The way of life and routes taken by Yudel, the novel’s protagonist, in the modular and replete with upheavals plot served her as a basis for her fragmentary sequence of events. Nurtured by the word as well as by the image, Viner-Omer brought together a wide range of images, whose arbitrary juxtaposition might be interpreted as an uninhibited gesture rather than an orientation index or a refuge anchor – horse’s heads, skeletons, a rabbit, gold paint, a cross, tombs, disruptive scraps of texts, angels, mixed metaphors,** celestial lights, skulls, and other motifs.
(Shlomit Breuer)
- Design: Noa Schwartz
- Texts: Shlomit Breuer, Anat Mandil, Rakefet Viner Omer
- Language editing: Tamar Ben Yehuda
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 60
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 33X27X1
- Reproductions: Oded Lebel, Rami Tsalka
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
- Type of printing: process
- Publication: GAM VE PUBLICATION
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Painter, born in 1965, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Rakefet Viner Omer Holds a BA in psychology and film (1990), a diploma in art from the Beit Berl Art College (2000), a degree in art therapy from the Beit Berl Art College (1993) and an MFA in art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2007).
Rakefet has exhibited many solo exhibitions, including at the Sapir Art Gallery, Raw-art Gallery (2022 and 2025),Teddy Artists' Gallery, Jerusalem (2018), Nulovaz Gallery (2017),I.A.I.L.A Los Angeles (curated by Sagi Rafael 2017), Feinberg Projects (2014), Beit Kenner Municipal Gallery, Rishon Lezion (2013), Tabi Gallery (2011), Jerusalem Artists 'House (Meron Sima Prize Exhibition 2010), Kibbutz Gallery (curated by Yael Kaney 2010), Tel Aviv Artists' Workshops (2009),and Janko Dada Museum (2005).
Her work has also been shown in many group exhibitions in venues such as Nahum Gutman Museum, Haifa Museum of Art, Jerusalem print Workshop, Artists' House In Tel Aviv, the project room at Sommer Gallery, Hanina Gallery, Shai Arieh Gallery, Sapir College Art School Gallery, Tirosh Gallery, Santa Barbara Gallery USA, Nordart - the Israeli pavilion in Germany, Kassel Industrial Park in Germany. Larnaca Biennale and more.
Rakefet is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award (2008) and the Miron Sima Award (2010). She also receives the Mifal Apais grant for her engraving catalog -engravings - Skeleton. Other catalogs and artist books that have been published: "Golden Sweat" (2022), Dolt Ouy Os (2011), Imaginary Friends (2011), Do You Think Art Should Be So Direct (2005), all of which accompanied a solo exhibition.
She also won Her works can be found in various collections such as Bank Leumi, the Mishkan for Art in Ein Harod and private collections such as Mitchell Presser, Yossi saban, Oded Shatil, Serge Tirosh and more.
