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.
TRANSLATION
Translation [minus skin]
In these works, I aspire to blur the boundaries between scientific and artistic views of the body. The process involved translating CT (Compound Tomography) images into digitalised images, printing them onto fabric and embroidering them with a pattern of knots, which has multilayered meanings.
Translation negotiates the paradoxical space between identity determined by external bodily features, and information abstracted into computerised images.
These artworks celebrate the body not as a mere aesthetic container but as an embodied process.
Haya Cohen: 2006
Medium: Canvas, embroidered CT Images, cotton threads, metallic threads.
Dimensions: 3 X 80 cm. X 180 cm.
