" Memory Shape"

 Collabration with "Silkit" - Biomaterial Startup Company in Field of Silk a graduate of "Weizmann Institute"

   

 

Project Background Info:  
The project was made by a collaboration with the start-up company, “Silk It”, founded by graduates of the Weizmann Institute, which is engaged in the innovative development of biochemical materials in the field of silk.
 

In the project, I focus on  on two cutting-edge  biochemical materials that the company produces in the laboratory:

Silk Film and Silk Aerogel

 

Both the Silk Aerogel and the Silk Film have a material memory, allowing  them to return to their original shape after being exposed to air or  after printing the images, as soon as they are placed back in water.

In the project, I explore the connections between this material memory and the emotional, environmental, and social transformations we experience as individuals, as a society, and as part of the natural world.
 

Print on Silk Aerogel

 

In works on the Silk Aerogel - There are images on both sides. Each side depicts a different scene of a character that creates continuity or contrast between the two.. One side is more faded and disappearing , while the other side is more dominant and clear.

My approach is to maintain references to availability, dynamism and constant change, which are references that apply  to all of us both in terms of personal and emotional development as well as social and environmental development.

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Print on Silk Film

 

In the works on Silk Film - the material is highly transparent, and changes shape as soon as it comes into contact with water or air. When exposed to  air, the silk material hardens and brittles, resembling  plastic. When exposed to water again, it returns to its supple and delicate state, resembling a membrane that  can easily be torn.

On  the material, there is a print of a single  scene (unlike the Silk Airgel prints, which feature  two different scenes). Due to the transparency of the material, however, in Silk Film the scenes are visible from both sides, with one side appearing more blurred and the other clear, revealing more details. 

In these works there is  reference to  point of view and different perspectives, and how they both affect our perception of ourselves in different situations in our lives.

The silk material, as well as the innovative biochemical materials that are developed in the laboratory, has a property known as Memory shape - which inspired the name of the project.

 

More information awaits you in the book of course :)

Acknowledgements:
 

Dr. Dror Eliez - for the collaboration with the company Silk it and for his scientific and chemical knowledge that contributed to the development of the new project

Centers for Social Justice, Partnership Guardians project - for the support grant for the project.