Malka Inbal's inspiration is her concern with real-life issues such as aging, intimacy and parenthood; she uses these themes as raw material to create her distinctive photographs. Her work takes a revolutionary look at the possibilities of contemporary photography as well as our assumptions towards the medium. Objects disintegrate, shimmer and reappear; the saturated colors embrace and play with light, as if in a dream state. There is a tension in these images - our eye catches sight of something within the rolling shapes that we might identify, and indeed the pictures rely on our personal involvement and interpretation for their consummation.
Malka's photographs not only force us to question our bias towards photography as a purely realistic documentation, they also invite us to question the meaning of reality itself. To Malka Inbal, as is evident in her stunning works, reality goes beyond the material visual surface, including all that we can imagine and dare to experience.
This series presents a social statement like religious coercion, social and cultural gaps, violence, loss, etc., which society attempts to deal with on a daily basis. It appears symbolically in the works. Organza fabrics were chosen, creating forms and by way of lightning, approaching the look of "crystals". Colors and shapes bubble from behind the esthetics covering the protest. I would like my work to touch people's feelings. I want them to enjoy it. The hardest thing is to do what I really believe that I should in my own way, without being influenced by "fashions" in art or bad intentioned critics.
