About Elinor Milchan

In the process of her work, Milchan explores the experience of time and what this experience entails, through the phenomenology of light and multiple panel composition, both in video and photography. For years, she has explored ways to bring the 2 dimensional format into an expression of time and space. Light being the "essence" of photography, Milchan examines and explores the object being photographed through it. Elinor's unique technique develops and deepens within the processes she creates in this investigation, ‘a powerful, lyrical vision, removed from galleries, shows, art strategies and aesthetic exercises, a vision owing itself only to the artist.” *

Curators and critics alike, both in Israel and abroad, from the Tel Aviv Museum (Nili Goren), the LACMA (Robert Sobieszek) to Art in Art America (Daniel Belasco), have praised the inventiveness of her unique techniques, describing it as “liberating the medium”, reminding “us that the essential of photography is light itself.” **

Milchan’s exhibitions and work have been featured and reviewed in various international art publications, and included in contemporary art auctions such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury.

Her work is included in many private and public collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum, and has received support for public art collaborations and installations by the likes of organizations such as MTV, JPMorgan/Chase, NewsCorp/20th Century Fox, Leaf, Bezalel, UBS, Credit Suisse, Silverstein Properties, BCRE-US, Ernst&Young and Africa-Israel. She has created numerous special projects and commissions, including live video performances with orchestra, temporary and permanent public installations both in Israel, Europe and the States.

Elinor Milchan taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2010. She was the co-founder of Artea Projects, co-curating public art projects in New York. She wrote and directed two documentaries on art, one of which, Todo Cambia, was presented in many festivals in the States and the UK, as well as on television. She has published several books, including two children’s books with Yediot Sfarim: The Invisible Story (co-created with Keren Ann Zeidel), and The Magical Letter. The later is, today, Platinum in Israel as part of the program of the PJ library Foundation and the Ministry of Education. She is currently working on adapting the book for the Haifa Theater.