Polymer, oil painting, hair

various sizes

Polymer, oil-paint

30hX20wX2d cm

Polymer, epoxy

Custom made Lightbox, 2024

Glass, Latex, wood

variable sizes

״Break Glass״

3 Boxes, 2023 - In private collection

She/He

Polymer, plaster, wood.

size: 60X45 cm

In private collection

"Bubot" (Dolls), 2018

Li Chen's "Dolls" piece, created especially for the exhibition "Shop It!," is an intriguing variation of the Barbie character.
Berlinsky tells the family story behind the work: "My grandfather was a metalworker and an artist. He used to buy sculptures and replicate them in molds that he created. He stored them in the drawers of the house, while my grandmother secretly distributed them and contemptuously called them "dolls" Chen's took the statue of Venus, one of the "dolls" her grandfather had bought in the flea market, created a mold and duplicated her "Dolls."

A packing factory agreed to create the white and "Barbie-pink" display boxes for the artist. 
In the museum display, the dolls' boxes are stacked on top of each other in a cube on a wooden palette, as in the preparation for wholesale shipping. Chen's, whose previous works dealt with the grooming routine of a young woman, often engages with the subjects of beauty and the attempts to achieve it. 
The artist notes that she made sure to leave in each of the dolls a small defect that would emphasize the manual production of the dolls.

SHOP IT! Haifa Museum of Art
Curated by Svetlana Reingold

Photos: Noa Flecker © Haifa Museum of Art

Dual exhibition with Kobi Assaf

Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery

3-8 July 2024

Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery