Haya Cohen is an arts practitioner that expresses and experiments with versatile mediums, including working with living art. After immigrating to Australia with her family, in 1997, she worked as a gemologist. Later, Haya added academic studies to her busy life. She completed her PhD in visual arts and cultural industries at Griffith University, Australia. As an arts practitioner, Haya’s main focus is on the continual processes of material thinking and thinking through materials and the relationships between body/self/environment. Her work draws from interdisciplinary areas focusing on intersections between philosophy, biology, cognitive science, anthropology and art. Haya has exhibited internationally and across Australia and published academic papers in interdisciplinary journals and books. Her teaching experience includes Griffith University and Queensland College of Art.
In recent years Haya experiments with printmaking. Her interest in exploring materials and connecting lines of thought are brought through her etchings, linocuts and much more.
Haya Cohen is an arts practitioner that expresses and experiments with versatile mediums, including working with living art. Haya’s main focus is on the continual processes of material thinking and thinking through materials and the relationships between body/self/environment.
Her work draws from interdisciplinary areas focusing on intersections between philosophy, biology, cognitive science, anthropology and art. Haya has exhibited internationally and across Australia and published academic papers in interdisciplinary journals and books.
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In recent years Haya experiments with printmaking. Her interest in exploring materials and connecting lines of thought are brought through her etchings, linocuts and much more.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Genius Loci, Spirit Of Place
Art exhibition exploring the intricate ties between place, space, feelings and emotions, where the heart and mind work together to construct a spiritual connection to place; communicating this through traditional printmaking techniques and mixed media works.
Textiled Becomings
The works presented in this exhibition explore the ways in which cultural, social and environmental forces are intertwined in the creative process and are reflected through specific materials and embodied performative activities.
Knitting a corpoself
Knitting a Corpoself invites the audience to move in and around the room where a knitted body is entwined with/in environment. My installation draws from the traditional story of the golem in the Jewish myth where the golem is an artificially created man, in most cases.
Am Are I
The Images of my brain’s reactions to various sound stimuli are articulated through MRI. The questions that arise when looking at the actual materialization of these reactions are about the relationship between identity and corporeality and the constant exchange with the environment.
Translation
In these works, I aspire to blur the boundaries between scientific and artistic views of the body. The process involved translating CT images into digitalised images, printing them onto fabric and embroidering them with a pattern of knots, which has multilayered meanings.
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Unit 9, 2 gemstone Boulevard
Carine, WA Australia