Avishag Cohen Rodrigues

Bio: Avishag Cohen Rodrigues is a musician and a multidisciplinary artist from Tel-Aviv. Working with sculpture, stop- motion animation, and printmaking, she creates cross-media installations and performances. She composes music for films and plays guitar with several bands, her solo album will be coming out later this year with Garzen Records.

Instagram: @Avishag_rodrigues

Thesis Exhibition

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Artist Statement: I collect discarded objects to draw out their sonic qualities; by amplifying found objects and scrap metal into electric instruments, I aim to position sounds and textures that exist on the peripherals of our everyday life to the forefront. As I build the sculptures, I learn to play on these makeshift instruments. In Hot Air Balloon (Hard Boiled Eggs), 2021, I stripped the skeleton of an abandoned hot air balloon and re-skinned it with latex, thread, and paper. I built a speaker into the structure that plays a recording of eggs boiling in water. On the surface of the latex, I projected an original stop-motion animation using projection mapping. The animation oscillates between abstract forms and narrative moments where lines meet into familiar forms of household images but then dissipate into abstraction again. Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, my installations trace the circular transition of forms morphing into objects, while holding space for sensations and memories that get caught, formless, in the transformation. Within these installations, I perform, playing on the found- object instruments, inviting viewers and other artists to join in, showing that anything can change form when we learn to control the function.

Untitled, (427), (Duration variable, Light sensors, 6 channels audio, speaker cables, staples, projection mapping, 2021); Wax’s, (Wax, fabric, 2021); Wood panels, (Dimensions variable, wall paint, plaster on wood, 2021)

First Year Exhibition

H.A.B.H.B.E (Hot Air Balloon/Hard Boiled Eggs) , 2021 Metal, latex, thread, copper wire, HD video with sound 72 x 40 x 20 in.; 6 min. 19 sec.

H.A.B.H.B.E (Hot Air Balloon/Hard Boiled Eggs), (72 x 40 x 20 in.; 6 min. 19 sec, Metal, latex, thread, copper wire, HD video with sound, 2021)

Open Studios

Tim Kwasny