I'm here within here
Lior Schur
Curator: Dr. Revital Michali
25.4.2026-23.5.2026
From the edge of the nest falling
The nest’s pit
No ground
Nest-ground
Nahir Baranovitz
Lior Schur’s solo exhibition examines saturation – the inability, or unwillingness, to delineate the personal within fixed or finite boundaries. Comprising a heterogeneous mix of materials, styles, techniques, and modes of expression, the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate fragments born of a sensual, rich, and continuous associative flow within the artist’s mental landscape. Built in a circular flow with no definitive center, it refuses to confine the artistic act or create hierarchies between visual information, emotional charge, and material expression. Instead, the exhibition simultaneously unfolds thoughts, actions, and experiences alongside the manners in which they are articulated. They leave traces on the body, the psyche, and materials through excess and multiplicity.
One might say that an experience of synesthesia lies at the core of Schur’s works, the eye almost able to touch the details. Ideas are transmuted into color, emotional states transform into textures, and themes take on material form. The artist seeks to show things in words and to speak them through the visual image.
Again and again, her works open up glimpses of elements, signs, and symbols: scales, vaginas, marine creatures, slumped figures, breasts, and fans; all almost inadvertently revealed, and taking form through a diversity of materials and techniques. Their persistent reemergence generates a compulsive repetition that in itself becomes a central thematic axis of the exhibition.
The works situated throughout the space emerge from a meticulous, sustained practice that unfolds within the interstitial zone between teaching, guidance, art therapy, and studio creation. Schur develops multiple bodies of work in parallel; her attention is never anchored to a single gesture but instead hovers in a state of suspension, the in‑between. Her studio also functions as her therapeutic space, and her artistic production takes shape in the intervals between sessions. Subsequently, the works function as conduits through which the content of therapeutic conversations is rearticulated materially.
Both the materials and the modes of making carry psychological charge: traces and fragments from the therapeutic realm are transformed into source matter for creation. The act of making is free from deliberate conceptualization, while the completed works incorporate a reflective gaze. The multilayered elements – accumulated from discrete fragments – generate emotions of pleasure and enchantment, yet they also reverberate with memories of wounds and pain.
Schur’s works are composed of vulnerable materials – often soft and perishable – that draw attention to the ways an experience inscribes itself upon body and psyche. In contrast to the commemorative logic of monuments, typically forged from iron or stone, Schur invites us to dwell within duration, emergence, decay, and fragility rather than in the outcomes or lessons of trauma that national‑masculine modes of remembrance tend to demand.
She constructs a meditative space that encourages viewers to look, linger, and reflect – and to engage in a private dialogue about experience, sensory input, trace, and memory. The installation she has created proposes an egalitarian, heterogeneous field, signaling that no single narrative can govern and that there is no one way to experience or represent a traumatic experience. There is no hierarchy of pleasure, and no hierarchy of pain.
R.M.
About the Artist and the Curator
Lior Schur is a multidisciplinary artist working across a wide range of techniques, including painting, sculpture, writing, ceramics, and – in her current exhibition – textiles. Her practice moves between abstraction and figuration and engages with realms of ancient, matriarchal traditions, witchcraft, and archetypes, alongside constant inquiry into materials and their inherent qualities. Schur is captivated by the possibility of generating transformation, “spinning gold from straw,” and in her work she examines how processes of change manifest in the encounter between idea and material.
Schur holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl (2008), and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Lesley University (2014). Her therapeutic background is evident in her art and is expressed through her material and metamorphic approach that emphasizes modes of processing, change, and becoming.
Dr. Revital Michali is a researcher, independent art curator, dramaturgist and performance artist living and working in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Michali holds a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from Tel Aviv University. Her writing and artistic practice focus on female identity, motherhood, and their connection to public spaces. She has curated and produced art exhibitions and events in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and the USA.
Member of the Alfred Institute for Art and Culture since 2021.