Meytar Zadok
The Living Archive
A digital exhibition space for handmade bodies, ritual fragments, paper rooms, animal memory, and the unstable architecture of home.
Matter, memory, and the self experience
Objects are gathered, altered, preserved, and restaged until they begin to behave like witnesses.
Zadok works across sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Her practice moves between countries, languages, and life roles, using materials as carriers of time: paper, clay, bone, fur, lace, wood, iron, concrete, industrial pigment, and found organic remains.
The website follows the same logic. It is not a neutral container, but a dark room where works appear through light, shadow, text, texture, and careful distance.
Project rooms
Move through the archive as a sequence of staged environments.
Room 01
Deciphering Conservation
A charged sculptural environment moving between the magical and the ominous. Remnants of nature and culture are preserved, dismantled, and reassembled into hybrid forms.
The digital room uses black theatrical space, bone-white edges, amber light, and suspended navigation to echo the desire to hold on in the face of transformation.
Room 02
Pastrami
The work moves between presence and disappearance. Repetitive gestures of covering, erasing, and reworking become a physical language for what cannot be fully articulated.
Here, the interface becomes more paper-like: torn margins, numbered fragments, black smears, and red-brown stains that stay behind the content like residue.
Room 03
Home-Family
A paper environment becomes both home and barrier. Small figures appear and disappear across different arrangements of light, perspective, and distance.
The page treats domestic space as unstable: newspaper surfaces, stair-like sections, violet and green light, and slow shifts between intimacy and estrangement.
Room 04
Migrating Mothers
A collective space for Israeli women artists living outside their country of origin, shaped through the intertwined conditions of migration and motherhood.
This room should feel quieter and colder: a place where belonging is not resolved, but examined, held, and made through practice.
Archive log
A conservation index for works, materials, and recurring conditions.
About the practice
A multidisciplinary practice where the tactile world and the internal psyche meet.
Meytar Zadok works at the intersection of sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Her practice is a continuous inquiry into material, history, and transformation, drawing from ancient cultures, biology, psychology, migration, and motherhood.
Originally from Israel, her artistic journey has unfolded across shifting geographical and cultural landscapes, including Brazil and Portugal. Migration is not treated as a biographical note, but as a primary artistic inquiry that shapes identity, memory, community, and the boundaries of professional practice.