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My name is Naama Aaronsohn.
I am an artist -- I create papier-mâché sculptures.
I live and work in Jerusalem.
People fascinate me. I live both alongside them and among them. I watch them with an inquiring stare, study their external features and try to uncover their identity, and then expose them. They represent daily life, glimpses of events, sights, memories, photographs and dreams. My people live out their lives on the boundary between fragments of reality and the anonymity created by imagination.
The people who pass by me every day are branded into my memory.
Most of them will fade away from my mind with the passage of time. But those who pass through the filter of my eye and memory eventually turn into sculptures. These are not an exact imitation of the reality that I have seen, but rather they are new images that are living in my own reality.
Indeed paper, just like the images that served as inspiration for me, is an endlessly amenable material. In its natural state paper is easily obtainable, soft and disposable—but in the course of creating the sculpture I turn it into a something tough, enduring and multilayered. The materials that form the basis of my creations—memories and paper—are transient. My work endows them both with a long and concrete existence.
The sculptures are made using different techniques of "Papier Mache".
I don't use paint on my sculptures. The final spectacular colour scheme stems from the use of different types of coloured paper as the external layer.
| Solo exhibitions |
| 1994 |
"Papier Mache", Tirosh gallery, Jaffa |
| 1997 |
"People 96", The Jerusalem theatre, for the Israel festival |
| 1999 |
"From here and there", Crystal office building, Ramat Gan |
| 1999 |
"The wait", The Opera house, Tel Aviv |
| 1999 |
"Untitled", Art Gallery, Kibbutz Na'an |
| 2000 |
"Visitors", Ashdod city museum, Ashdod |
| 2005 |
"A Meal", Wilfrid Israel museum, Kibbutz Ha'Zorea |
| 2006 |
"A Meal", Ashdod city museum, Ashdod |
| 2007 |
"A Meal", Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem |
| 2007 |
"A Meal", Municipal Gallery, Rishon Le'Zion |
| 2008 |
"A Meal", Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan |
| 2010 |
"It is all about people", The museum tower, Tel-aviv |
| 2012 |
"People", The Supreme Court Building, Jerusalem |
| 2018 |
"My dead ones"Periscope – Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel Aviv |
| Group Exhibitions |
| 1998 |
"The Garden – A metaphor", Botanical Gardens, Jerusalem |
| 2000 |
"Contemporary Art at the Pasteur House", Jaffa |
| 2000 |
"Israel 2000 – Identity Card", The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem |
| 2001 |
"World of Childhood", Meirov Art Centre, Holon |
| 2001 |
"L'objectif Subjectif", Art Gallery – Esch Theatre, Luxembourg |
| 2002 |
"Autoportrait", The Gallery, Ein Hod |
| 2003 |
"Ten women and one man", Gallery at the Stage Centre,
Ganei Tikva |
| 2003 |
"FABRICation", Ashdod Museum, Arad Museum,
Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba |
| 2004 |
"Sculptures", Petach Tikva Culture Center |
| 2005 |
"As if the flow never stopped", High-Touch – A place for contemporary art, Herzliya |
| 2005 |
5th International Paper Triennial, Val de Charmey Museum, Switzerland |
| 2007 |
"Art for the People", Rishon Le'Zion City Hall |
| 2008 |
"Salt of the Earth – An Israeli Portrait", Wilfrid Israel museum, Kibbutz Ha'Zorea |
| 2008 |
"Material & Immaterial – Paper Art in Israel", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv |
| 2008 |
"Signs of Love", "Begova Haeinayim" Center, Holon |
| 2010 |
"Deconstructivism: disassembling & assembling", Apart.Art,
Tel Aviv |
| 2010 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition 2010", Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv |
| 2010 |
"The Art of Consumption", Ramat Aviv Mall, Tel-Aviv |
| 2010 |
"When Two Loves Meet", Gallery Hotel, Haifa |
| 2011 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition 2011", Hapoalim Bank, Tel-Aviv |
| 2011 |
"Paper Taste", Design Space Gallery, Tel-Aviv |
| 2011 |
"Food, Go for it", The Municipal Gallery, Raanana |
| 2012 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition 2012", Hapoalim Bank, Tel-Aviv |
| 2012 |
"The Passion for Shoes", Gerstein Gallery, Tel-Aviv |
| 2013 |
"Paper Art in Israel 2", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv |
| 2014 |
"Doing Now", Einav Culture Center, Tel-Aviv |
| 2014 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition", Hapoalim Bank, Tel-Aviv |
| 2015 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition", Praterinsel, Munich |
| 2015 |
"What's Funny?", Children's Museum, Holon |
| 2015 |
"Fiction & The Pulp", Negev Museum of Art, Be'er -Sheva |
| 2016 |
"Israeli Art Exhibition"Hapoalim Bank , Tel Aviv |
| 2017 |
"“Nature Impression" 3rd International Paper Biennal , Be’er –Sheva |
| 2019 |
"Textual Textures" Negev Artist's House, Beer Sheva |
| 2021 |
"Capsule" Supreme Court , Jerusalem |
| 2021 |
"Fellowship" Supreme Court , Jerusalem |
| 2021 |
"International women's day" Supreme Court , Jerusalem |
2022 |
"Encounters Through Paper" 5th International Paper Biannale , Beer Sheva |
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