The Soft Fall, 2025

Anna Muravich  

Anna Muravich (b. 1998, Israel) is an artist working in painting and drawing, and lives in Jerusalem. Her practice explores the boundaries between material and memory, presence and absence, control and surrender. Her paintings and drawings move between abstraction and figuration, combining intuitive gestures with precise thought, using oil, charcoal, and erasure. The works emerge from an ongoing dialogue with material and time. She constructs and deconstructs images repeatedly, allowing them to shift, blur, and reappear through the layers of paint. Bodily fragments and inner landscapes intertwine into new realities, where the line between painting, memory, and imagination gradually dissolves. Her work moves within the tension between existence and disappearance, seeking to give form to what has nearly vanished. The works offers an intimate reflection on transformation, moments of disintegration, reconstruction, and rebirth. She gravitates toward quiet, peripheral spaces, where a subtle yet vital presence unfolds. The idea of “the periphery of painting" serves as a point of departure' an attempt to bring what is considered marginal into the center and allow it to take shape. “My creative process unfolds between softness and sharp line, between spontaneous movement and moments of pause. Each layer bears witness to thought and action, intuition and search. I see painting as an act of listening an attempt to touch what has not yet taken name or form, to connect between past and present, memory and imagination, matter and spirit.