Ronit Eden

Samah Shihadi
Lying Down, Pencil on paper, 208X151 cm, 2014

A young woman hovers in mid-air, her eyes shut, inward-looking. She beguiles us: is she floating, or somehow suspended from above? In her meticulous realistic drawing style, Samah created an unworldly Self Portrait with pencil on paper, evoking an illusion of a photograph.
Or in her own words: I sometimes need to detach myself for strenuous moments.