The Twelve Healers (2025)
Solo Exhibition
As part of Body Becomes a Place
Mifal HaPais Greenhouse of Dana Art Gallery
Solo Exhibition
As part of Body Becomes a Place
Mifal HaPais Greenhouse of Dana Art Gallery
Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Curator: Ravit Harari
Curator: Ravit Harari
The Twelve Healers, 2025
soft pastel on paper
112x69.2 cm each
soft pastel on paper
112x69.2 cm each
“The Twelve Healers” is one of five solo exhibitions created as part of Mifal HaPais Greenhouse of Dana Art Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. Each exhibition relates to the human body as a channel for processing pain and loss, whether personal or collective, or for healing and rehabilitation.
The Twelve Healers, Karen Dolev’s series of drawings, uses soft pastels on paper and is inspired by Bach Flower Remedies method—a holistic approach to healing that Dr. Edward Bach developed in England during the 1930s. Bach identified twelve flower essences believed to form the foundation of emotional healing, operating under the idea that mental balance is crucial for physical wellness. are abstract and vibrant, featuring gentle color transitions that visually and energetically represent these flowers. Each piece serves as a pictorial essence, encapsulating both the plant's healing attributes and the emotional spectrum it represents. Collectively, they form a garden of abstract color fields, creating a personal refuge with a nearly transcendental ambiance.
The saturated color fields carry a quality of inner light, seeming to emanate from the works themselves, reminiscent of windows bathing the room in soft colored light that invites reflection and surrender. The drawings do not depict anything concrete; like stained-glass windows in a church, they engage the senses, the body, and the imagination.
Alongside the drawings is a pocket-sized pseudo-botanical guide that navigates between flowers, colors, and emotional states. Instead of scientific or documentary observation, the exhibition offers an almost intuitive and meditative experience. Karen Dolev does not provide a diagnosis; instead, she offers the potential for emotional connection and gentle healing. This may exist in imagination, but increasingly feels real over time spent in the space.
Text by Ravit Harari
The Twelve Healers, Karen Dolev’s series of drawings, uses soft pastels on paper and is inspired by Bach Flower Remedies method—a holistic approach to healing that Dr. Edward Bach developed in England during the 1930s. Bach identified twelve flower essences believed to form the foundation of emotional healing, operating under the idea that mental balance is crucial for physical wellness. are abstract and vibrant, featuring gentle color transitions that visually and energetically represent these flowers. Each piece serves as a pictorial essence, encapsulating both the plant's healing attributes and the emotional spectrum it represents. Collectively, they form a garden of abstract color fields, creating a personal refuge with a nearly transcendental ambiance.
The saturated color fields carry a quality of inner light, seeming to emanate from the works themselves, reminiscent of windows bathing the room in soft colored light that invites reflection and surrender. The drawings do not depict anything concrete; like stained-glass windows in a church, they engage the senses, the body, and the imagination.
Alongside the drawings is a pocket-sized pseudo-botanical guide that navigates between flowers, colors, and emotional states. Instead of scientific or documentary observation, the exhibition offers an almost intuitive and meditative experience. Karen Dolev does not provide a diagnosis; instead, she offers the potential for emotional connection and gentle healing. This may exist in imagination, but increasingly feels real over time spent in the space.
Text by Ravit Harari
The Twelve Healers, 2025
artist book, limited edition
80 pages, bilingual (Hebrew/English)
This pocket sized quasi-botanical guide draws from Dr. Edward Bach’s book ‘The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies’, which was published in London in 1933 and introduced the Bach Flower Remedies method for the first time. It was created as part of the exhibition ‘The Twelve Healers’ and it navigates between flowers, colors, and emotional states.
Design by Field Day Studio — Zohar Koren and Idan Am-Shalem
Featuring texts by Dr Edward Bach, Ravit Harari, Dr Zohara Yaniv Bachrach and Ran Kasmy Ilan
Editing by Yoni Raz Portugali
English translation by Ella Novak
Book documetation by Ben Alon
