I was invited to show at the Marienkirche in Stralsund. I was impressed by the altarpiece there. I decided to bring the saints back and down to earth. On the back side of each figure, I have written about people from my childhood who had similar names.

For over a year, Atalya has frequented the British Museum in London on a regular basis.
Before long, she owned her own vast collection of drawings and possessed a desire to make sense out of them.

Public collection as such raise questions about place, time and the sense of belonging. Objects are displaced and uprooted from familiar surroundings;
Their original sense of purpose dysfunctions in the new narrative contexts; The fetishised artefacts invite fantasies. Whether taking an escape road or an analogical route, politicaly – privately or publically - museums as such are places of projection and introspection.

The habit of drawing from museum collections has fallen from favour, allowing the freedom to approach the custom without a schooled precedence.
Initially seduced formally, Atalya took perverse pleasure in this supposedly archaic process and reclaimed the humorous, erotic and poetic potential supplied by the art objects.

The attempts to make a more ambitious or cohesive statement, resulted in a series of acetate collages. By re-drawing her drawings on the thin material and arranging and rearranging them, the work became more and more of a 'multi layered experience' issues of transparency and reflection quite literally....

Mixed media