Shir Melech is a textile artist, whose practice is based on two main mediums: weaving and print. By working in these mediums, she examines in depth the connections that exist between man and nature and between man and man, and examines how these connections are created, changed, and broken. Her working process develops from layers of action: connection, disassembly, and reassembly.

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In her work, she combines fibers, threads, cyanotype prints, and glass plates. The glass plates serve as work surfaces through which the images are created in the printing process, and during the work, she places the plates on a fabrics coated with cyanotype solution and builds changing compositions on them. The shapes, transparency, and structure of the glass affect the way light passes through the surface and creates the printed image.

 

A new composition is created in each print; the changes in the position of the plates and their intersection create connections, overlaps, and separations between the forms. The cyanotype technique allows working with light, water and time as an integral part of the creative process, and thus the images are created from a reaction between the material and the environmental conditions.

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Through weaving and printing, she creates systems of connections between material, image, movement and memory, and opens up a space where natural processes and human actions meet and change together. The resulting works are large-scale abstract works, rich in many shades of blue. Sometimes they resemble a vision of distant galaxies, like glacial deserts at the edge of the world, or like a drop of water magnified dozens of times under a microscope.

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The images invite the viewer to linger in front of the works, to approach, touch, ask questions, interpret and dive into the space they open up. Thereby discovering invisible connections between him and the object, material and environment.