Deganit Berest: The Conspiracy of Nature, Works, 1973–2013
The Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Painter, 2012
Deganit Berest creates in her artistic oeuvre – series of photographs, of paintings and of combined photography and painting – a fascinating dynamic between the media, doubting their purity. Simple technical processes of disassembly, assembly, projection, screening or enlargement turn the simple into wondrous, odd and eternal, creating tension between sight and consciousness. Berest belongs to the first wave of conceptual artists who raised feminist consciousness in Israeli art.