Ofir Dor’s works focus on emotional states and conflicts. His monumental compositions, which are composed of dynamic and highly expressive brushstrokes, distill emotions such as intimacy, fear, jealousy, love, or the pain of parting. Some of these paintings are inspired by dreams, while most of the scenes take place in unidentified interiors characterized by diagonal windows and openings. Dor resuscitates a traditional genre that has become almost obsolete – figurative paintings in which allegory is embodied in personified concepts and emotions, and whose dramatic contents can be deciphered with the help of the work’s title.

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