Sharon Peretz is a Tel Aviv-based installation artist her work is influenced by her upbringing in the industrial zones of Haifa. Her childhood experiences in her father’s garage, surrounded by raw materials and the spaces of nearby factories, shaped her belief in the transformative power of space—both physically and emotionally. This early connection to industrial environments continues to inform her artistic practice, which is grounded in a totality where she lives and creates in the same space.
Peretz’s practice revolves around large-scale, site-specific installations that explore the relationship between space and human experience. The places she settles in are vast industrial hangars, capable of accommodating the wide-ranging installations she envisions. Due to the transient nature of such spaces, she frequently relocates her home/studio, and it is often at the moment of departure that she creates her art. For a brief period, the space transforms into a total installation, to which she invites other artists to join her in responding to the space.
In her current practice, Peretz focuses on themes of liminality and the passage of time, particularly in the transitions between physical and metaphysical spaces. She approaches space as both material and object, using it as a canvas for her intuitive explorations. Her work often deconstructs the familiar, transforming space into an emotional entity where new forms of expression emerge.