My practice explores how stories continue to live through objects, language, and the layered traces of everyday life.

I collect what people and places leave behind: old books, maps, photographs, newspapers, handwritten notes, found objects, and fragments of text. These materials already carry memory. They arrive with histories, relationships, and previous meanings.

Rather than preserving them, I place them into new conversations.

Through collage, assemblage, and artist books, I dismantle familiar narratives and reconstruct them, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge between image, object, and language. I am interested not only in the stories we tell, but also in the stories we inherit, repeat, and sometimes unknowingly continue to carry.

My work often returns to questions of femininity, masculinity, identity, intimacy, belonging, and emotional inheritance. These are not subjects I seek to illustrate, but narratives I want to examine. By shifting materials out of their original context, I invite viewers to reconsider the cultural stories that shape the way we understand ourselves and one another.

Language is one of my primary materials.

I work with Hebrew not only for its meaning but for its physical presence. Biblical vocabulary, newspaper headlines, handwritten notes, and everyday words become visual elements within the work. Like found objects, words carry memory. Once removed from their original context, they begin to tell different stories.

My process begins long before I enter the studio.

It begins by walking.

By observing.

By listening.

By collecting.

By reading.

By paying attention.

I think of this process as emotional archaeology.

Every object carries the trace of a previous life.

Every story carries the trace of a previous telling.

The materials I collect become my vocabulary. I edit them the way I edit a text, removing, rearranging, and reconnecting fragments until familiar stories can be seen from a different perspective.

Contact Me

Sharon Bag

+972-54-4653663

sharon@brithamila.com