Bio

Inbal Volpo

Multidisciplinary artist

Based in Vienna

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The work of Inbal Volpo emerges from a life shaped within a politically charged landscape, where art becomes a tool of resistance, testimony, and archive. Her practice seeks to mediate an inner reality, one structured around the sanctification of death and sacrifice, to an external society unfamiliar with the cultural and ideological logic in which she was raised.

Her childhood was formed in a West Bank settlement, within a Zionist community where the land itself became a religion and the border dissolved into a spectral sign: a line eroded and blurred under totalitarian structures. In this reality, she was educated into values of patriotism and nationalism, within a world where borders were never merely geographical but also psychic, symbolic and elusive. Out of this experience, her work develops an inquiry into the tension between finitude and its absence, between presence and erasure.

Within this language, art becomes a space of resistance and testimony. She employs the visual image not as ornament or distraction, but as a means of exposing what is being concealed: the mechanisms of control, the politicization of daily life, the histories that are written and erased simultaneously.

The photographs, objects, and fragments she gathers are haunted by a quiet estrangement. What should feel intimate, domestic, and safe instead returns with a shadow, familiar yet unsettled, like a home that has learned to betray its own walls. Each image carries the double weight of presence and absence: it holds a moment, yet it whispers of its loss. The archive too, in its promise to preserve, reveals the gaps and silences it cannot contain. In this interplay, the ordinary becomes uncanny, a space where memory flickers, where the known and the unknown collapse into one another.

At the same time, her work touches on moments of expansion before what cannot be represented, experiences where reality opens onto something beyond comprehension and control, where terror and beauty intertwine. The spaces she constructs resist a single line or center; instead, they unfold as multiplicity, in constant becoming, refusing to close into a singular form. In doing so, they create an alternative to hierarchical political structures, a space in which movement and dispersion are conditions of existence.

Through all of this, Inbal Volpo’s work is not only a personal testimony but also a call to re-examine notions of borders, memory, and belonging. Her practice situates art as a critical space that rearticulates the entanglement of the personal and the political, of the landscape she grew up in and the gaze of those encountering it from the outside.