tree (2006) Painting by Margalit Berriet

Born on the 1st of April 1958 in Tel Aviv (Israël- Palestine),
Lived in New- York (USA) between 79 et 88,
In Paris + Montpellier between 88 et 93,
In San Francisco (USA) to 95.
Live in Paris - married and mother for one child.
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My work is a long on going research about the human nature.

It is not the tolerance of grief, but the awareness of ifs cause, effect, and existence, that can make one's art effective.
The responsibility of an artist, does not lay in its effect only, but it is his/her influence to criticize, and to provoke to see, to hear, to learn, and to notice, one-self, and the other!..
By so doing recognizing the differences… different, but similar, all human and mortals :
Sexuality is birth-, Birth is death, and in-Between birth and death, You and 1, can love or hate, desire or reject, give or take, celebrate or grief, destroy or create…and those represent life!
In between the phases, you and I may learn, think, feel, - give or take…
And that is the process of creating… so I draw lines to try to understand and to portrait…
Thos are the roots of my work, as well as its reason, and my principal interests of my life.

Creating is seeing, looking, and searching new ways to tell.
Via the practices of art, we can illustrate a general scheme of communication that transcend via all the differences.
That deep-shared subconscious common human reality I look for, to create, and to provoke in others. ( for example motherhood, joy of birth, mourning after death, feel love, desire, hate, or rejections, etc.)
This allows us to understand that we are all different, because we are all unique, with the capacities to produce new messages, yet we are all similar by our human virtue.
Those brought me to develop in parallel to my art the desire for artistic education, via the understanding of the utilization of human symbols as a universal language via all form of art,
and its different origins.
In a museum, we are exposed to those multitude of artistic expressions, from different origins or times of history, by different individuals, from opposite tradition, ( Christian, Arab, Jewish, Buddhism, etc…up to contemporary art).
There for, for me, via art manifested a universality of the human spirit, that cherish the diversity of each and every one of us.
This creative communication, of all forms of expression, created a correspondence between all cultures, up to today, where I hope to create this bit of universality in my art, or introduce this message via my educative activities (conferences) in museum or via the ateliers of art plastic in schools or within other occasions.

“There’re paintings of silence, those of Margalit are of a scream, a cry of a couple that found each other, or that separated, this of a woman giving birth, and of the child that came into the world: pleasure or pain, anxiousness or hope are all mixed, and The life is visibly circulating in the powerf...

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1958
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists