Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Exo


Ayala Serfaty was born in Tel Aviv in 1962 and studied Fine Art in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She was the recipient of the America- Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship to Middlesex Polytechnic in England where she concluded her BFA. Over time her style and interests became more rooted in design practice and in 1994 Ayala founded 'Aqua Creations' with her photographer husband Albi Serfaty. 'Aqua Creations' was founded with the aim of creating lighting and furniture that melded advanced technology with organic design.





Serfaty has been working on a project since 2002 that has lead to the development and creation of sculpture/lighting called Soma. The word Soma comes from the Greek word for body and the structures are composed of glass and polymer-skin. Layer upon layer of transparent glass create the 'frame' that gives the structure depth. Polymer is sprayed over this to create a skin.




The video below shows how a Soma structure is built and assembled.


Serfaty states that "Soma's structure is composed of 'lamp-worked' layers of tinted transparent glass veins that create both depth and surface. A clear membrane-like skin is webbed over the glass structure. Both materials are extremely fragile. Their symbiotic relationship creates a strong spatial structure, merging the two materials into a new specificity. Soma illuminated objects explore the interaction created between the glass structure and the skin, and the relativity of coverage to visible depth. The practice of Soma evolves from one piece to the next. Each of these pieces explores ways to transform calligraphy into texture and into structure. In each piece various particular relationships are created between the surface, light, and shade. The configurations show a more abstract authenticity of the Soma practice, a form created by free drawing in space, captured like a frozen moment of existence."


To see more work from Ayala Serfaty and from Aqua Creations check out the following links:

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