Hand printed fabric sheets by Shir Melech

My name is Shir Melech, I am 27 years old, living in Israel. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree at Shenkar College in the department of textile design. I specialize in weaving and printing, and inspired by the infinite nature.

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Phone: +972-54-202-6353
About the project:
In the exhibition I have presented 2 fabrics from my graduate project: Un-Earth.
The project consists of a series of hand-printed fabric sheets using cyanotype technology, which present different compositions dealing with the relationship between us and the environment, us with the sea in particular. I look at reality directly. The sea is not the same sea, it’s high, scary, dirty and polluted.

In order to return it to the initial state, I dive into the unknown land, the subconscious, the depths of the sea. I listen, observe and collect parts from there which I flood to land, into the conscious in order to be able to see the whole.

These parts are represented by the glasses I collect, break into pieces and create endless structures from them that commemorate the current crisis between us and the sea. Doubt perpetuates the fragments as glaciers that disappear from the world; Spek creates a utopian state of unity between the subconscious and the ecology that is frighteningly changing before our eyes.

Dubai DIFC Art Gallery Exhibition November 2023