The short film Studio Visit with Keren Shpilsher is available to watch at the top of the page.
Keren Shpilsher, a multidisciplinary artist and curator, paints her world with unrestrained fervor, believing in the boundless potential of her creative canvas. Much like her creations, she is a vibrant kaleidoscope of thoughts and emotions. “My canvas knows no bounds,” she declares with captivating intensity, mirroring the vivid details and hues that make her artwork a mesmerizing spectacle.
Much like the ceaseless outpouring of colors on her canvas, Shpilsher’s conversation style is equally fluid and intricate, flowing like an endless river of thoughts and reflections. Her sentences, echoing the narrative of her paintings, rarely find an end. The energy and liveliness of her speech are akin to the explosive colors and details in her artwork, painting a vivid picture of her effervescent personality.
Her artwork is an exhilarating interplay of strokes and colors, a dance of elements that form arresting images. The vividness of her work is a clarion call for an extended gaze, a more profound interpretation. It is an invitation to immerse oneself in the tumultuous yet captivating whirlpool of color, detail, and thought.
Shpilsher’s masterful manipulation of color brings forth an apparent innocence that ingeniously draws viewers into a realm far from naivety. It pushes the audience to venture beyond the enticing surface and uncover the deeper narratives of childhood trauma, societal conflict, and the ceaseless quest for love and acceptance.
The artist’s creative process bears testimony to the intense emotional bond she shares with her work. She describes her artistry as an ‘obsessive-compulsive’ pursuit, painting with relentless determination until her artwork, intriguingly, completes her, inverting the traditional concept of the artist finalizing the artwork.
The accompanying video offers a glimpse into Shpilsher’s creative philosophy. She views her paintings as uninterrupted sentences, a vehicle to convey her hidden desires and suppressed thoughts. Through her silent language of colors and forms, she unveils the unspoken, the concealed, and the suppressed.
The featured video Studio Visit with Keren Shpilsher is part of the web series Yotsrim by Shachaf Dekel. Yotsrim includes five seasons and 73 episodes. The series won the Best Documentary award at the NYC Web Fest in 2019.
