Orna Bromberg and Vered Nachmani at Dvir Gallery

“From the outset of her path in painting, Vered Nachma- ni has chosen subjects taken from a concrete reality: a kitchen alcove, a yard, a family. “Bourgeois” painting, on the face of it – seductive coloring and a pulse of detailed everyday existence that transmitted a basic confidence
in life. In fact, however, Vered Nachmani’s painting never promised all these. Even when she painted ducks in a yard, dogs, trees and landscape, her painting projected a strong sense of lost grasp and of something that has gone wrong, though it is difficult to say exactly what. Perhaps this stemmed from the fragmented character of the painting, which was stretched over the canvas from edge to edge, like an ornamented carpet the theme of which lies beyond its boundaries. The images were represented by means of stains, as though painted from a second-order source, such as a photograph or a dim memory, opaque to access.”

-Text by Galila Bar Or