Traces VIII: 8th Biennale for Drawing in Israel – More than One (2022–2023)
Group exhibition
Group exhibition
Jerusalem Artists’ House
curator: Irith Hadar
curator: Irith Hadar
Little Trees, 2020–ongoing
pastel and carbon paper on paper
45x60 cm each
︎︎︎ from top-left to bottom-right: Rainforest Mist, No Smoking, Lavender, True North, Vanilla Pride, Cotton Candy, Pure Steel, Peachy Peach
Virtual tour at the exhibition ︎
pastel and carbon paper on paper
45x60 cm each
︎︎︎ from top-left to bottom-right: Rainforest Mist, No Smoking, Lavender, True North, Vanilla Pride, Cotton Candy, Pure Steel, Peachy Peach
Virtual tour at the exhibition ︎
This series includes all the fragrance of “Little Trees”, the iconic car air freshener. Produced with copy paper to create the faded outlines of an image, each tree is colored in a different color. Alongside their company’s fragrance titles, the series creates a viewing experience led by a visual-linguistic-olfactory synesthesia.
“Karen Dolev's series Little Trees repeats the image of an industrial product, capturing all fragrances of the well-knownair freshener shaped as an evergreen. The faded pastel colorationrefers to the coloration of the product itself or to an imaginary coloration, which the artist associated with the marketing title of each of the artificial fragrances. The fragile quality of the paper and the delicacy of the one-off drawing ostensibly reinstate the strong-scented artificial industrial product with the clarity of the forest air. At the same time, the image of the artificial tree, copied in detail using carbon paper, draws away from that clarity.”
“Karen Dolev's series Little Trees repeats the image of an industrial product, capturing all fragrances of the well-knownair freshener shaped as an evergreen. The faded pastel colorationrefers to the coloration of the product itself or to an imaginary coloration, which the artist associated with the marketing title of each of the artificial fragrances. The fragile quality of the paper and the delicacy of the one-off drawing ostensibly reinstate the strong-scented artificial industrial product with the clarity of the forest air. At the same time, the image of the artificial tree, copied in detail using carbon paper, draws away from that clarity.”
An excerpt from the exhibition text by curator Irit Hadar