Maayan Shachar (b. 1988), lives and works in Kibbutz Tselim. Her work includes sculpture, installation and drawing practices, in which she combines various materials, ordinary objects and everyday moments, while intervening and changing their functionality and converting them into a new matter. Her sculptures are influenced by her immediate surroundings and are characterized by the multiplicity of units that join in different techniques, into one mass. Most of her works are made of a combination of ready-made materials and organic materials.

Her objects usually function as living performances – rotating on their axis purposelessly, embodying within them unrealized movement potential, or an inanimate stillness. Both the sculptures and the drawings respond to situations of repetition, a sense of absurdity and a sense of alienation in relation to the spectator, through which Shahar explores the possibility of deviating from the familiar linear direction, which leads to an unclear destination.

Shahar completed her B.F.A. & M.F.A. studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her works have been exhibited in various museums in Israel, including the Negev Museum of Art, the Eretz Israel Museum, and solo shows at the Kibbutz Bari Gallery and the Incubator Gallery.