On Friday, November 7, 2025, an exhibition of Sivan Cohen, curated by Anat Michaelis-Levy, has opened at the Sarah Arman Gallery. The exhibition will feature a variety of works from recent years, following previous exhibitions by the artist. It is difficult to classify Sivan Cohen as part of any particular or familiar artistic movement, as their style is "adjacent" to known styles, yet marked by unique and personal originality. The creative incubator is the early morning hours, where meditative theta waves operate, detached from analytical and judgmental rationality, allowing the inner infinity to speak through the movements of painting. The works are executed with acrylic markers, usually in two or three colors, on black Canson paper, with precision that only internal guidance can achieve. The images are intriguing and convey a coded message from the subconscious, like dreams loaded with meaning. At night, against a .backdrop of quiet music and emptied thoughts, the muses began to appear
In the darkness of constant uncertainty and the mystery of existential meaning, Sivan Cohen's images shine as space creatures and as micro-organisms, indicating the existence of other, different, and dreamed lives—like alien signals about dimensions of experience and insight, each with its own life. The inner cosmos that exists within each of us pulses more strongly in the artist, documenting its existence through them. The artist, as an involuntary medium, experiences the messages, documents, and presents them faithfully and lovingly. The exhibited works express freedom of form and use all dimensions of space: blossoming and flourishing of energetic forms resembling vegetation, like the Japanese honeysuckle after which the exhibition is named, and images of underwater creatures radiating energy and vitality. The creations are not subject to gravity and convey freedom and independence from any conditioning, and this sense of inner freedom is what Sivan Cohen experiences in their creation.
The visual beauty of the images is emphasized against the black background with minimalist expressive richness. The honeysuckle-like blossom appears repeatedly in some works, some accompanied by images of winged and mythological amphibians, some resembling a rising angel. The works convey efforts to expand into space, to touch its edges and grasp something solid, real, and existing. There is both tension and relaxation in them. Some radiate fractal energy, as if deciphering them would reveal additional layers. The attentive viewer will notice the tension in the works, striving to transcend and touch new boundaries. Since beginning to create the works preceding this exhibition, Sivan Cohen has matured and crystallized, and their search has found new stations. These will continue to move in the space of consciousness seeking meaning for the mysteries of human and personal existence and the ever-renewing infinite enigma. For the hidden artist within each of us, the exhibited works are evidence that discovering our inner navigator may yield unexpected fruits.
Curator: Anat Michaelis-Levy
Artist: Sivan Cohen – sivanco1@bezeqint.net
Interviewed, written, and edited by: Yoel Emet – Member of the Academic Sector Journalists' Association.
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