Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Artis
Efrat Hakimi
Efrat Hakimi is a multidisciplinary artist who blends digital and traditional techniques to study and interpret images, objects, narratives, and sites. Her work spans photography, printmaking, video installation, and sculpture, focusing on the relationship between bodies and cultural artifacts, particularly those connected to the female body. By viewing tools and objects as entry points into rituals, ideologies, and vernacular design, she explores themes such as medical procedures, pilgrimage, atonement, and spiritual practices in her art.
Efrat Hakimi has exhibited work at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, among others.
Efrat Hakimi, Yad, 2024, mixed media installation, 31 × 55 in. (78.74 × 139.7 cm).
Efrat Hakimi, Protective amulet against miscarriage (I), 2021, archival pigment print, 37 × 31 in. (93.98 × 78.74 cm).
Efrat Hakimi, Looking for a Village, 2022, installation view.
Efrat Hakimi, Frena, 2021, archival pigment print, 118 × 157 in. (299.72 × 398.78 cm).
Efrat Hakimi, Jerusalem, 2022, two channel video, 4:09 min.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2024
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen’s work explores themes of femininity, gender, and the cultural frameworks surrounding women’s imagery. The figures she creates draw from primordial sources—mythologies, stories, and their various incarnations in art and popular culture. They narrate tales, nightmares, dreams, and legends, often with a painful intensity. These figures seem vocal, as if reciting poetry, screaming, or murmuring. They are independent entities, navigating the world with both challenge and determination. Through exposure to fear and doubt, the women Cohen portrays seek answers, and perhaps, refuge.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen has exhibited work at Museum de Fundatie, The Netherlands; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, among others.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Beloved Wall of Portraits (Details), Judith, Miriam, Untitled, Lea Goldberg, Hana Senesh, Neta Sobol, 2020, mixed media on paper, 161/2 × 1113/16 in. (41.99 × 30 cm).
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Black Mountains, 2018, mixed media on paper cutouts and builders’ tape on canva, 1181/8 × 2361/4 in. (300 × 600 cm).
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Curtain of Tears, 2015, installation view.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Broken Infinity, 2019, mixed media on paper cutouts on canvas, 577/8 × 951/4 in. (146.99 × 241.99 cm).
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2024: Perrotin Gallery
Dora Jeridi
Dora Jeridi’s work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive painting style that fuses intense emotion with powerful physicality. Her practice often explores the tension between figuration and chaos, employing vivid color contrasts, bold brushstrokes, and diverse media like oil, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and spray paint. Jeridi’s paintings evoke a visceral, enigmatic narrative where autobiographical elements blend with broader societal crises, creating a distinct “atmosphere of crisis.”
Dora Jeridi has exhibited work at Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Perrotin Gallery, Paris; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, among others.
Dora Jeridi, The Escape, 2024, oil, oil stick, acrylic, charcoal and ball-point pen on canvas, 169 × 78 in. (429.26 × 198.12 cm).
Dora Jeridi, Intoxicated Rest, 2024, oil, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 70 × 82 in. (177.8 × 208.28 cm).
Dora Jeridi, MOUTH RAID, 2023, oil, oil stick, charcoal and spray paint on canvas, 82 × 98 in. (208.28 × 248.92 cm).
Dora Jeridi, The Conversation, 2024, oil and oil stick on canvas, 76 × 90 in. (193.04 × 228.6 cm).
Dora Jeridi, PONY CLUB (Guernica for Kids), 2023, oil, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 157 × 82 in. (398.78 × 208.28 cm).
