B. 1989, lives and works in Tel Aviv.

At the core of Chefetz’s practice lies a longing for a sense of home and belonging. He observes his environment and employs the classic landscape painting convention not to faithfully represent the landscape in its geopolitical or national context, but to express a personal experience of oscillating between polar opposites. The emotional content dictates the color palette, compositions, materials, mediums, and installation. Through this process, Chefetz examines the elements of place and time as components of identity.

Within his research, which embraces a range of mediums, painting emerges as a daily practice. He experiments with different expressions of painting and uses it to tell a story or to craft an experience imbued with an impression of duration and emotional progression, similar to the kind of engagement one encounters in a live performance. While his usual substrate is canvas, for conceptually charged works requiring different material qualities, he has replaced it with paper, cardboard, nylon, or perspex.