The Visual Diaries of Ora Brill

Ora Brill’s notebooks—twelve to date—function as visual journals, an ongoing and intensive practice that began with the outbreak of the war on October 7. Brill works in drawing, painting, and collage, blending art-historical imagery with archetypes charged with historical meaning, dismantling and reconstructing time anew. She works in layers, building an evolving system of images in which each page is a self-contained event and at the same time part of a continuum. The repeated action of the hand—drawing, cutting, and almost brutal pasting—generates a movement that holds the tension between private experience and a reality in collapse. Through the familiar, she seeks to understand both personal and collective time, articulating new possibilities and inviting us to see what we had not seen before.

04.12.2025