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Hilla Toony Navok
Young and Promising Artist
Hilla Toony Navok is a sketcher and sculptor. She was born in 1974. She has a BA in design from Wizo Hadasa College of Art in Haifa and Master of Fine Art degree from Bezalel Academy for Art and Design. She teaches at the Art department in Bezalel, Jerusalem.
In her sculpting and video works, Navok deciphers the codes of Israeli architecture and design investigating the traces of abstract modernism in the public spheres in Israel. Her works are identified with a surprising, original sculptural use of daily materials and objects from the Israeli home design and public sphere exposing new qualities and ways to look at them.
Coupled with the playfulness and humor in her work, Navok's works evoke questions about the way that designing the objects that surround us exposes the deepest fantasies, failures and aspirations of the society in which we live as well as society's attitude to concepts such as "body", "success", "work" and "home".
Navok's approach to sculptural materials is dual: her sculptures are monumental yet fragile, full of empathy yet raise questions and doubts. Her sculptures have a performative quality and her sketches posses a sculptural essence.
Navok won the Minister of Culture Prize and the Creativity Encouragement Award on behalf of the Ministry of Culture (2012, 2019), the Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist from the Israel Museum (2018) and the Givon Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011) coupled with other awards. She is a graduate of the Artport residency program, Tel Aviv (2016). One of her permanent works is presented at the entrance to the new railway station in Jerusalem (Navon Station).
Navok's first book, "If what you're craving for right now is Pilates, that's what you should focus on", was co-written with author Yonatan Raz Portugali and was published in 2018. The book is not about Pilates.
