Simone Fattal’s practice has always been informed by war and its historical contexts.
The ancient material of clay that is both fragile and strong, breakable even as it may
last forever, allows Fattal to trace the past into the present. She doesn’t differentiate
between the figure of a contemporary warrior and an Enkidu who lived and fought in
3000 B.C. She situates herself along this continnuum linking images, histories and
their consequences that she feels are all present in her psyche and by extension, in
her work. A newly commissioned bronze sculpture called The Traitor or the Evil One is
presented alongside a number of existing clay works.

April 2011