HAVA RAUCHER
“I am a multidisciplinary artist engaged in painting, sculpture, and installations in the public sphere. In 1948, my family immigrated to Israel from post-war Bulgaria and was sent together with immigrant and other displaced Europeans to live in Jaffa.
My habitat, as a child, was among survivors and refugees, all, in large part, broken in body and mind, and this has made its mark on my artwork. The days were days of plague and loss of control, days when we restart our life’s operating system and examine the basic values of our human existence… values like modesty and humility.
My paintings are paraphrases of masterpieces. Humor allows me to make friends with death. In the words of the Roman philosopher Seneca. "Anyone who is afraid of the dead has never learned the role of man. But whomever tells himself, from the first moment in this world, his destiny has already been determined, will manage his life more peacefully ..." These things echo in my painting "Seneca's Death" in which his character appears. Some of my paintings are about death, some are blessing life, and some are asking questions about human nature.“
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