Girl With A Gold Collar

Anat Wegier

What draws us to a face that is partially lost - or a body caught in the act of vanishing? My work explores how memory, emotion, and identity are held in fragments, and what it means to recover presence through absence. My work is rooted in personal memory and genealogical echoes, but always with an eye toward regeneration and hope. I work intuitively with layers, allowing figures and other elements to emerge through gestures of both construction and erasure. Themes of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation recur, with each concept becoming a kind of excavation - an archaeology of the human experience shaped by time, feeling, and forgetting. I often depict women, directly or indirectly, in moments after the storm - anchored, aligned, and connected to the natural world and their inner truth. My figures may emerge from shadow, but they move forward with clarity and power. My process speaks to broader questions in contemporary figurative art about how we represent the self in an age of disconnection, and how the body carries history, trauma, and hope. It also speaks to the cultural urgency of reclaiming stories that have been silenced, particularly those passed down through female lineages. Through this work, I hope to create space for quiet recognition, where viewers may find echoes of their own emotional landscapes, and where, by facing our inherited stories, we make room for new ones: stories of strength, self-definition, and spiritual grace. Anat studied philosophy and art history at Tel Aviv University, attended Metafora in Barcelona, and the New York School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and art fairs, including Spectrum Miami, Green & Stone London, and the CICA Museum Korea. Anat sees art as a tool for healing, protest, and connection—a way to reveal truths hidden behind masks.