Eliyahu Fatal / Eli Petel

Eliyahu Fatal born 1974, Jerusalem, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Fatal is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist mixing different mediums such as painting, sculpture, sound, video and prints. His work deals with questions of visual perception and cultural and social taste. This is accomplished while looking at the history of Western art and at Israeli society as they appear in the world of media. He also examines the representation of aspects such as Orientalism, Judaism, law, media, technology within Israeli society. Most of Fatal’s works appear as an incarnation of a pictorial action, whether in photography, sound, projection, or painting.

His works are in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the City of Paris Collection and more. They have also been exhibited in museums around the world such as; the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Mishkan for Art in Munich, the Center for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin. Fatal has won many awards including the Dizengoff Award, the Rapaport Award for a Young Artist, the Ministry of Culture Award, and more.