Yael Hovav’s paintings represent a process in which she tries to create an autonomous pictorial world. The information that feeds this worldis obtained from a variety of source materials and motivations: the private body, local scenery, and discussion with art history, as well asformalistic questions.

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She’s influenced by literary terms in the sense that bodies and scenery can be seen as ”characters” and ”settings”, even if a definednarrative is not necessarily present.
Yael approaches painting as one would approach a riddle, editing her process continuously and defining the elements she has created to inhabit her forming space, while striving to locate her work within the context of contemporary figurative painting.