Yonatan Zofy’s new solo exhibition consists primarily of lace-like paintings made of sand and glue, focusing on the dazzling encounter with the sun rays passing through the trees. In a reduced yet detailed color language, Zofy focuses on the precise moment when sun beams shatter into the world, when the sun takes form as a body touching other bodies on earth, while simultaneously enabling the very act of seeing.
The filtering of sunlight through the tree branches reveals, for a brief moment, sculptural fragments of the sun in action, cast into a relief in sand.

This body of work was created following the artist’s relocation from urban life in central Israel to the green scapes of Amuka in the Upper Galilee.

Yonatan Zofy, born in 1983, lives and works in Amuka.

Zofy graduated from the Fine Art Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, in 2010. He has received several awards, including the Osnat Mozes Young Artist Award (2017), an Artist-Teacher Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture (2019), and an Award of Excellence from Bezalel Academy (2011).

He has participated in notable group exhibitions such as Shutters and Stairs at the Israel Museum (2020), Code vs Code (2019), and And the Hand Draws On (2018) at the Tel Aviv Museum. Zofy has held two solo exhibitions at Noga Gallery: Eyeful (2022) and To Draw a Breath (2024).

His works are included in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum, the Israel Museum, the Knesset, and private collections.