Noa Lidor (Israel, 1977) won the first edition of Museo ABC Drawing Prize in 2011. This prize is the result of a joint venture between the Museum and JustMad art fair, and it consists of the production and organization of an exhibition which allows visitors to explore the prize-winner’s work more fully.
The act of drawing is paramount to Lidor’s practice, not only in the creation of actual drawings on paper, but also in her sculptures and installations, which extend the act of drawing into the realm of the three dimensional, creating, for example, a drawing with thimbles embedded in the wall or with mounds of salt placed on a tabletop.
Noa Lidor´s work is characterised by its poetic and sensual utilization of unassuming materials such as paper, plaster and wax, and of everyday domestic objects, such as the furniture of a family home. Her works often employ ready-made objects, disrupting their intended use to create new narratives . The subject matter of her oeuvre is fuelled by poetry and mythological stories which transform chameleon-like, adopting cultural idiosyncrasies and blending in with the folk traditions of a variety of seemingly distanced and unrelated communities. A recurrent theme in Lidor’s work is boundaries and breakdowns in communication: some of her pieces involve musical instruments that are rendered soundless, while others employ Braille texts that become absurdly inaccessible to the blind and the seeing alike. The works on show in this exhibition embody a sense of paradox, pointing at the gap between the visual and the tactile, surface and depth, doubt and faith, and language and genuine experience.
centro de arte / dibujo / ilustración
Venue: MUSEO ABC, Calle Amaniel 29-31. 28015 MADRID.
Schedule – January 30 until March 18, 2012.
