TAMARA TURGEMAN
ABOUT
Turgeman lives and creats in Ein Hod, an artist colony, a small village comunity in nature, located in the north of Israel. Turgeman holds a BA degree in both art nd psychology, and recieved her MA in Arts Therapy from Lessley college in Boston. Simultaneously to her therapeutic work Turgeman continued her pursuit of knowledge in formal and unformal studies. Turgeman has studied Integrative Psychotherapy Studies in the Hebrew University , and Group Therapy in a Psychanalitic view in Haifa University, Today, Turgeman is primarlly occupied by art, but her vision and interest continue to deal with the personal inner world and the development of human perception.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For me the act of creation is a method of researching an idea that interests me; sometimes it even provides me with answers to my research questions. I immerse myself in the physical and experiential action of the creative process. In this way I distinguish and refine my understandings and expand my comprehension beyond verbal thinking. I act unconsciously, and often only towards the end of the process do I notice the connection between the material, the medium and the idea. This is an unplanned, associative process in which, alternately, I lead, or I am led. I am interested in the systems of ideas, values, and culture that human society creates, and the conflicts those systems produce for the individual. I am interested in how human beings perceive their existence within social space and in the universe. I often use and process my private and specific memories as case studies for examining the cultural context in which I live. I work in a wide range of techniques—painting, carving, weaving, printing and sculpting in clay, in varying formats and sizes, from large canvas paintings to small porcelain sheets. I adapt the technique and the medium to the subject I am researching. Sometimes I combine and assemble several different elements into one work. A frequent theme that emerges in my work is that of fragility and transience in opposition to the prodigious qualities of materiality and time.