Hilla Lulu

(Afula, Israel, 1964)

Her work focuses on the human body and she often uses herself as subject and object in her videos, photographs, installations, poetry and performances. It carries out a very personal exploration of how the body can be manipulated, what happens when it comes into contact with objects and what they evoke. Her work is characterized by a post-feminist, subversive and contemporary tone. Enigmatic and full of paradoxes, it fluctuates between the concrete and the illusory, reality and fiction, the mundane and the esoteric, pleasure and pain. The decadent and alluring world that emerges from his works is full of humor and irony, as well as containing a high degree of provocative personal expression. Lulu makes fascinating use of language, integrating poetic texts into her creations. His texts aspire to a physically poetic prelinguistics, imitating childish and sensual sounds: sighs, murmurs, licks,….