If the figures in Liorah Tchiprout’s paintings appear unsettlingly unreal - an awkward position here, an offbeat proportion there - it is because they are. The models in Tchiprout’s exquisite paintings are dolls she has created in her studio, adding a childlike innocence to the figures disconcertingly at odds with their expressions.
Tchiprout builds on this contradiction in the literary and cultural references her work is littered with, from symbolic nods in the pieces themselves to the titles which allude to the Yiddish women writers who explore the inner sanctum of womanhood, such as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, R. B. Kitaj, Charlotte Salomon and Celia Paul.
