Otherworldly Sculptures

Renowned for her Bizarre sculptures, Israeli contemporary artist, Ronit Baranga brings to the art world her own brand of sentience and coversation.

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Israeli sculptress, Ronit Baranga, once invited her family over for a holiday meal and the table was set with bowls on fingers, her own ceramic sculptures, as a way to express the tension and relationships between the participants of the meal. According to her, the bowls represent the movement of separation and drifting away from social situations one is obligated to be part of. Speaking to Home Review, the sculptress takes us to her world of sentient and figurative sculptures.

Baranga holds a B.A. in Psychology and Hebrew Literature from Haifa University. She went on to study Art History in Tel-Aviv University and also has a degree in Fine Arts from Beit Berl College under her belt.

Her sculptures primarily bring out the contrast as well as duality in meaning as far as viewer experience is concerned, and tend to engage the viewer in conversations with the pieces. Everyday objects are given human gestures, anatomical parts, and the ability to go beyond their mundane functionalities.

Ceramic tableware has been hybridised with human body parts, such as hands, the mouth, the tongue, etc and pulled into a dialogue with the viewer, symbolising the threadbare divide between the inner world and outward existence. Baranga uses the fingers and mouth with ‘full intent and meaning’. Both are sensual organs, according to her, and therefore stand to be more powerful when separated from the body.