LOT 79
| Technique | Painting |
| Size | 120 x 110 cm |
| Availability | Available |
| Donation | 50% |
A group of figures is gathered tightly within a vivid, almost glowing boat, their bodies compressed into a shared, unstable space. Their faces are simplified yet expressive, hovering between individuality and anonymity, as if each carries a distinct presence while dissolving into the collective. The boat itself reads as both shelter and vulnerability—an exposed vessel adrift within a restless, vibrating environment. The scene suggests a fragile community suspended between movement and uncertainty, where belonging and displacement coexist.
The work evokes a digital glitch translated into painterly language—where material, rhythm, and distortion converge into a suspended moment of visual instability.
About Alon Kedem
Alon Kedem (b.1982) lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel.
He holds a BFA and MFA degrees from the Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Kedem had participated in various group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, amongst them "All through the Days - Playfulness in contemporary Israeli Art" (2024-present) at the Ramat Gan museum of Israeli Art, “Fake news\Fake truth” (2019) at the Haifa Art Museum, "Take Painting" (2016) at Petach Tikva museum of Art.
Kedem also had many solo exhibitions at the last 15 years amongst them- "Auto-Therapy", 2024, a solo exhibition at Keren Bar Gil contemporary Art gallery, Ramat Hasharon, "Here is there " (2022) and “Hamudi Tours” (2019), solo exhibitionsat Hezi Cohen Gallery in Tel- Aviv, and “Great Sunset”, (2017) at CIPA gallery, Beijing.
In 2011, Kedem received the Osnat Mozes Prize for a young painter, and on 2014 Kedem had been chosen to be one of the 100 painters (the only Israeli one) in the prestigious book "100 Painters of Tomorrow", by Kurt Beers, Thames & Hudson, London.
Kedem's works are part of the Israel museum collection, the Tel Aviv museum of Art collection, the Knesset collection, The American university museum collection in Washington DC and many other public and private collections in Israel, USA, Europe, and China.
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