BODY = THE NEW RELIGION
Between the years 2015-2019 I presented the artwork "BODY = The New Religion".
This is a methodological research about the Body and its relations to the Self. Without any boundaries between me and my art, my own body was used as a platform for conducting artistic experiments. I totally identified with my Body as a Religion. After a long process of individuation, I have finally integrated into being One with my real Self. Since then, I have applied a new title, “Shlema”, to sign my artwork.
Shlema in Hebrew means “whole”. Within the framework of my art, I have become an independent Body - whole in itself.
The Art of Repression
2015
Tel Aviv, Israel
BODY = The New Religion's Autonomous Zone.
An installation featuring a constant performance by me as the Master of the Body.
A group of 15 individuals wearing a costume made of Tomato-Leather, playing and celebrating "The Revelation of the Body Through the Grid", a piece written and composed by me.
This concert was performed for the first time at the opening of the exhibition BODY = The New Religion.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
2015
Tel Aviv, Israel
BODY = The New Religion's Headquarters. The installation features 60 meters of Tomato-Leather, props from "Holy Body Parts", a 7-minute projection of the drawing series "A Grid Points to a Body" and a 7-minute audio recording of a confession I made just before the exhibition opened.
Taken place on the 13th of May, 2015 at the St. Anthony's Church in Jaffa, Israel.
A Grid Points to a Body
2015
Mixed media on a calendar.
A series of 50 drawings
30/42 cm each
Hall of Body
2015
Calafou, Catalunya, Spain. 2015
A site-specific installation, performance.
An old church, In an abandoned textile factory, was transformed into "The Hall of Body".
As part of the initiation ceremony, a performance took place by the Master of the Body and the community members of the Calafou Collective.
