Born in 1949, Deganit Berest’s earliest works were displayed at exhibitions in the 1970's and are associated with analytical photography and painting. Berest’s work consists of a collection of series, some photographs, and others paintings and even of photographs and paintings combined. By using the processes of disassembly, assembly, projection, screening or enlargement and harnessing the random and the arbitrary, she turns the simple into wondrous, odd and eternal images, creating tension between sight and consciousness. Berest belongs to the first wave of conceptual artists that raised feminist consciousness in Israeli art.

The metamorphosis of rational to irrational and the immense amount of water imagery in her work clearly reflect her cultural link to femininity.Berest had dozens of solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv museum of Art and other leading museums and galleries and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Her works can be found in museum collections in Israel and in many private collections.

"Berest is an exemplary conceptual artist whose versatile and challenging work has long achieved divine status in Israel."