Dorit Feldman (1956-2000)
Made Nonexistence into Existence, 2003-2016
Leather, cast bronze, brass, brass mesh, mixed media painting and photography on paper
Museum Collection
This book-object is based on Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation, 2nd century). Sefer Yetzirah describes how the universe was made “With 32 wondrous paths of wisdom God engraved and created his universe…” The pages of this book-object relate to the same 32 wondrous paths encapsulating the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet and the ten sefirot.
Must Know
Dorit is a conceptual artist educated in the late 1970s. her work expands the boundaries of visual languages to span the expressive possibilities of conceptual art, land art, and body art. her work incorporates a rich range of materials and methods of visual expressions. She uses cutting-edge scientific research, and philosophical texts as sources of conceptual inspiration for her imagery.
This piece will be exhibited on the 2nd floor in the area of “Faith Thought and Creativity” in one of two vitrines in front of the texts discussing the Sefirot (Emanations) and Parzufim (faces), kabbalistic concepts representing the divine structure linking the worlds of divinity with the human material and finite world.
