Gili Avissar works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of painting, sculpture, video, performance, and dance. He originally intended to study fashion design but chose instead to pursue fine arts in Jerusalem, Glasgow, and Tel Aviv, seeking greater freedom of artistic expression.
A consistent thread throughout Gili Avissar’s practice is his work with textiles. Using weaving, knotting, and patchwork techniques, he combines predominantly recycled materials into large-scale installations, often inhabited by textile beings and fantastical creatures. These vibrant structures take on a life of their own, moving between human, animal, and plant forms, offering audiences multiple perspectives on transformation, movement, and metamorphosis. Avissar frequently uses his own body as a medium, so individual works can also serve as costumes for videos and performances. In recent years, he has regularly collaborated with performers, dancers, and choreographers, allowing his works to be reinterpreted in dance and theater productions and transformed into stage and costume designs.
In his site-specific interventions outdoors, Gili Avissar creates close connections between materials and nature. Strands, knots, and interwoven forms reflect organic growth and environmental impulses, to which the artist responds with exuberant combinations of color and line. The result is an ongoing dialogue between material, space, and nature, challenging perceptions of boundaries, movement, and interaction while opening new perspectives on the interplay between human and non-human worlds.