Ilana Goor is an individualistic, autodidactic, intuitive and multifaceted artist. As an artist who knows no boundaries and whose art transcends any conventions, her creations are a blend of vitality and obsession, functional simplicity alongside expressive complexity bordering on surrealism. Her sources of inspiration are neither time nor place-dependent. They create a personal statement, a journey replete with meaning and they succeed in touching and moving people the world over.
Goor was born in Tiberias to an educated and distinguished family of highly respected doctors and artists. She never studied art or design in any formal setting. She developed her artistic techniques on her own from an early age, when she used various parts to create small statues. She is considered to be an international multidisciplinary artist. Her works encompass sculptures, furniture, judaica, lighting fixtures, jewelry and fashion items which are displayed in well known galleries worldwide and are distinguished by their powerful, dominant presence.
Ilana Goor began her artistic path at a very young age, and her talent, as well as her phenomenal ability to blend different materials, was already apparent then. To this day, she consistently works with crude, strong and rough materials such as iron and bronze which miraculously melts and softens in her grasp. Sometimes it even appears as though the metal succumbs to Ilana’s skilled hands, forgoes its basic essence and turns into a living, breathing entity.
Goor rarely uses artificial colors, but rather highlights the material’s natural colors, preserves and even emphasizes its fabric as a gesture of respect. Her many sculptures dispersed worldwide address a wide range of content worlds with added value, e.g.: ritualism on several levels such as the ritual of working the earth which, in Ilana’s sculptures, assumes a sacred and serious status. As a woman of art and a woman of the earth, her creation reflects the place where the two become one.
