Yael Harnik

Laser cut silk screen print on cotton, hand sewn, metal construction
65X35 cm., 2015

Is it an angel who came down to us from heaven, covering his face, ashamed and appalled by what he has seen? I slowly approached the winged creature, curious to reveal its identity. On a closer look, I find prints of feathers, meticulously stitched together by hand to create the illusion of a real living thing.

Yael Harnik created a notion of inward movement in the sculpture, a sort of cocoon in an eternal process of emergence. We can not discover what is hidden inside, not even through the narrow crack. I will never know what has horrified the angel so, and why he chose to cover his face.