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Rachelle
Menshikova is a working artist and educator. She was born in Latvia,
of the former Soviet republic. As a teenager she immigrated to Israel.
Rachelle received BFA from the BEZALEL Fine Arts & Design Academy
in Jerusalem and is a 2004 MFA graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY.
Throughout the years she created paintings, sculptures, installations,
performances and photographs, examining the structures of social
and cultural contents of places she lived in. Working with time-based
media, Rachelle creates visual and aural sequential forms. She believes
in interdisciplinary art, which brings the humanistic touch into
the art technology.
In her latest works, which take forms of the experimental documentaries,
Rachelle deals with the representation of subjective experience
of an individual - such approach posits the subject as emotional
witness where memory becomes the critical junction. Here the raw
inflow of emotions becomes inter-woven with the story of our subjective
experience. In these works she walks along the lines of tangled
relationships of words and metaphors, histories and stories, facts
and truth.
Being an imagist, visual fiesta is her passion and the ability to
translate thoughts into images and vise versa is her work.
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