Stitching The Heart – A Solo Exhibition By Tel Aviv Artist Cristina Weiss

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With much to convey, Weiss approaches each project anew in her search for a new and innovative creative language.

The artist Cristina Weiss is first and foremost a dancer but is also a classical ballet teacher who has raised and fostered a long line of pupils. Finding expression in the movement of the body and its limbs, Weiss’s original creativity is carried from one end of the stage to the other.

Living and working in Tel Aviv, the same desire to create inspires her today as well in her artistic work. Weiss initially worked with cloth which transformed into oil paintings. Later on she began sculpting with wood and stone, both polishing and engraving. With much to convey, Weiss approaches each project as new in her search for a new and innovative creative language.

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Skipping to March 2020, the world is in turmoil with our habits and lifestyle changing from

day-to-day. Pent up in our homes, some of us are desperate, while others take advantage of opportunities to engage in activities which are personally meaningful. Daily life becomes circumscribed and we have to avail ourselves of our inner resources, which come to our assistance. For Christina, this point of time became an opportunity for a new beginning.

Using small pieces of cloth, thread in various colors, thoughts; memories, wishes, regrets, sights, and love become the source from which she draws inspiration, all of which are intertwined with the sensitivity which characterizes her. At this point the woman of movement takes up a needle and thread, creating embroidery in a free and creative manner.

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Weiss addresses themes such as Byzantine icons,

but instead of depicting saints, she combines

natural landscapes in a religious composition.

The embroidery of leaves, marked by contour

only, conveys the feeling that they cannot be filled

a void that attests to the essence of life.

"I sought the unknown," she says, adding:

"My dream is to draw music."

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Her work is “a bit of this and a bit of that, sometimes telling a story, always recreating childhood memories -sometimes it is figurative but mostly abstract.

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In Cristina’s embroideries there is a great wealth of color but they also convey a sense of humor with the inclusion of several “sketches” as if taken from a child’s exercise book, it is a portrait stitched with thread in the spirit of creativity.

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By Michal Sadan

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Curator: Rachel Sukman

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