Mortal Aspects of the Human Body from the 60's Until Today Avraham Eilat December 2002-January 2003 "One of Eilat’s main obsessions in the last forty years has been a meditation on the body. But his representations are far from conventional: do not look for Renaissance bodies, ideally proportioned, sovereign and enclosed within their own limits, or symbols of harmony, physical and mental strength. For Eilat the body cannot exist on its own: it is connected to the entire world. Its boundaries are porous and open up to receive the world’s vibrations, positive or not, and include elements of the outside that they reflect and transform. And out best chance of understanding comes when our body fails us or when the world is in a situation of vulnerability of crisis: for instance it is the artist’s recent individual ordeal, an illness leading to the deprivation of speech (Anepia) that has allowed him to represent loss in the form of twisted and broken vocal cords, and to channel his energies into a new artistic language. ...Eilat’s message is that of a stoician: being mortal and conscious of it at all times is positive." Excerpts from a text by: Carole Naggar