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Renana Aldor is an artist working across moving image, installation, and expanded cinematic practices.
She is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where she graduated with honors from the Screen-Based Arts Department and later received her MFA.
Aldor's practice exists at the intersection of the documentary and the performative. Her working process often begins with an existing or imagined photographic moment, suspended in time and animated through camera movement or the subtle calibration of the gaze. Through moving image and installation, she constructs choreographed encounters in which bodies, objects, and the cinematic gaze constitute the perception of memory and space. Her work engages the cinematic apparatus as a way of thinking, exploring how gestures, proximity and distance, duration, and spatial structures shape the relationship between the individual and the collective, and between body and psyche. Her works often unfold through restrained yet charged situations, where anticipation and uncertainty linger without resolution, producing an uncanny sense of suspended time.
Aldor is the recipient of the 2021 Miron Sima Prize for Visual Arts and the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and at international festivals and venues, including the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Jerusalem Artists’ House; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv; the National Art Center, Tokyo; Arsenal Gallery, Poznań; REAKTOR International Film Festival, Vienna; and the Jerusalem Film Festival, among others.