Daniella Bella CandleShine
Lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Works in different media such as drawing, video and sculpture. Each action requires its own material.
Graduated with honors in Fine Art from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2020); was an exchange student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2019).
My body is an important creative partner. It appears in my works as an actor, an image or a measurement unit. As a raw material it is easily available, malleable, compliant and inexpensive. The fact that I own it endows me with freedom of action.
For the past two years I have been drawing with wall putty and charcoal, using a technique that I keep developing and through which I keep evolving. My drawings are made in motion, as I stand in front of the wall and mobilize my entire body. Movement is an integral part of the drawing itself, as is the space in which the drawing is being produced. I explore the physicality of the act of drawing, the spiritual charge inherent to the creative act, as well as the material tension between the triviality and coarseness of the wall putty on the one hand, and the delicacy and fragility of the charcoal on the other.
