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.
EDGINESS
Edginess is an appropriate term for contemporary textile practice because it “cites established genres and their edges even as it cuts across and beyond them” (Sarat Maharaj)
As an artist I am interested in the relationship between the human body and its environments.
I accentuate the porous semipermeable membranes of bodies that are in a constant process of exchange.
I chose to combine the strangeness of the CT images with banal objects of furniture. Knitting the images into the coverings domesticates these scientific images changing them into patterns that adorn our everyday life.
Haya Cohen: Installation 2005
Medium: Knitted CT images, acrylic fibres, metallic threads, chicken mesh.
Dimensions: Variable
