About

Dafna Tal is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, photography, and installation. Her work examines inner mechanisms of the human psyche—thoughts, emotions, and perceptions that drive human behavior and shape collective reality.

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Tal’s practice is characterized by the intersection of contemporary art and documentary principles, and by a participatory dimension involving communities and natural environments. Her work ranges from social experiments that explore human responses in constructed situations to visual investigations of perception, emotion, and sensory experience through engagement with material, nature, and form.

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Tal studied theatre and sculpture, and later photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. She holds a European Diploma in Cultural Project Management from the Association Marcel Hicter in Belgium. Her works have been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals including the Casula Powerhouse Arts Center (Sydney), Lagos Photo Festival (Nigeria), and Visa pour l’Image (Perpignan, France).

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Selected works include: You’re Gorgeous, You’re Mad — a video experiment connecting opposing aspects of self-perception; You Don’t Have To Do a Thing — video portraits documenting participants’ reactions to the sounds of religious prayers; and The Invisible Whole — a mirror and light installation that reveals a shifting external appearance of the viewer every few seconds.

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Tal approaches the creative process as a form of inquiry, where direct engagement and visual expression become tools for observing the hidden dynamics that shape personal and social experience.