Artwork name: Eco Erotica
Artwork dimension: 53X130 cm
Triptych
Technique: Photograph printed on textured paper
A tree trunk invoking memories of primeval eroticism, pregnancy, and birth alongside the body of the artist, mother of five, and obstetrician emit a deep connection to nature and mother earth and present musings about sexuality, fertility, and a longing for a simpler world.
Artwork name: Placenta
Year: 2021
Artwork dimension: 33 x 26 cm
Technique: Printed fabric and embroidery
The placenta is an organ that forms in the womb, during pregnancy. The placenta is connected to the developing baby by the umbilical cord. Through the umbilical cord, the placenta provides oxygen and nutrients to the developing baby.
It’s a symbol of hope and a prospect for a new horizon
Artwork name: Still Death
Year: 2021
Artwork dimension:
Technique: edited photography printed on silk, embroidery
Revital Arbel uses photography and embroidery to express her feelings and thoughts about the relations between her profession and the natural world. The natural harmony and disharmony in nature relates to her work as she finds herself on the thin line between the natural order and human intervention, often without resolution.
At the center of the work Defloration stand flowers photographed by the artist during a family trip to Portugal. Nevertheless, the word “defloration” usually refers to the act of depriving a woman of her virginity by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse. A close look reveals that the pastoral photographs of flowers is actually a collage in which some of the flowers are actually photographs of hymens that have been surgically restored. Embroidered flowers are interspersed with the bare embroidered hymens.
“These flowers captured my attention because of the sensuality of the layers of their petals. I than replaced some of them with sad flowers of virginity restored by me to save the name and life of a young woman. By repairing the hymen, I help women survive but also perform an unnecessary and unneeded medical procedure thus helping in a way to establish wrong rituals.
Art helps me mend this, by embroidering over my surgery stiches I can express my voice and the many voices of women whom their torn hymens I repaired. I believe that with my art I can help making a global change in the attitude toward women, their sexuality, their right over their body and stopping acts such as genital mutilation and honor killings.”
Artwork name: Mona Vagina
Year: 2021
Artwork dimension: 33 x 26 cm
Medical stamp on silk and thread
In the medical stamp the Vulva is shown in an unrealistic detached, schematic and uniform manner, far from real life exposed imperfection. The embroidery turns the alienated black and white image into a warm and realistic humane form, thus evoking empathy.