(Live Here) – Invitation to the exhibition: The art exhibition "Duet", bringing together artists Sanaa Natur and Dalia Rotem, will open on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at the Samah Awad Art Gallery in Daliyat Al Carmel.
The exhibition, curated by Ruthie Segal, seeks to create a meeting between two artists with different life worlds, but with a common language of color, memory, identity, music and emotion.
when and where?
- Exhibition opening: Thursday, 1/10/2026, at 17:30 PM
- Closing of the exhibition: 31/10/2026
- Place: Samah Awad Art Gallery, Daliyat Al Carmel
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- curator: Ruth Segal
- Opening hours on Saturday: 10:00-14:00
- Midweek: By prior arrangement by phone
The exhibition's title, "Duet," is no coincidence. It expresses the artistic and intercultural dialogue that is being forged between the two artists, Sanaa Natur and Dalia Rotem, each of whom brings to the gallery space her life story, her sources of inspiration, and the artistic language she has developed over the years.
The exhibition will open at the Samah Art Gallery in Dali'at El Carmel on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 17:30 PM, and will be on display until October 31.
Dalia Rotem: Between Music and Painting
Dalia Rotem was born in Haifa in 1943 and grew up in a music-loving home on the Carmel. A world of sounds, colors, and shadows accompanied her from childhood and became a significant part of her inner world.
Her love of painting led her in her youth to study fashion painting with Ricky Ben Ari in Tel Aviv, and later to study in London. After returning to Israel in the early 60s, she began teaching fashion painting and continued to create and develop her artistic path over the years.
For the past 25 years, Rotem has dedicated a major part of her time to teaching painting. Along with teaching techniques, she seeks to encourage her students to discover and develop a personal artistic language, based on observation, freedom, and listening to their inner voice.
Sanaa Natur: "I don't paint what the eye sees"
Sanaa Natour was born in Daliat El Carmel and grew up in a home where creativity was an integral part of everyday life. Her mother was involved in fashion design and sewing, and the continuous encounter with colors, fabrics, and materials shaped her love of art from an early age.
Her professional path led her first to teaching and later to studying law and practicing law, but art remained, she says, the inner language that accompanied her throughout the years. At a certain point, she chose to dedicate herself fully to creation.
Natur creates paintings, mosaics, and sculptures in metal mesh. Her works deal with memory, identity, femininity, old age, hope, loneliness, and the connection between generations. They draw inspiration from human experiences, her cultural and spiritual world, and the landscapes of her childhood.
"I do not paint what the eye sees, but what the soul remembers," She says.
For her, art is not necessarily a place that provides answers, but rather an open space for observation and dialogue, where each person can find their own emotion or meaning.
A "duet" between two creators and between two worlds
For Dalia Rotem, the concept of "duet" carries a double meaning.
On the one hand, this is the encounter between her and Sanaa Natur: two artists, two perspectives and two artistic languages, meeting in one exhibition and creating a shared dialogue.
On the other hand, "Duet" is also part of Rotem's personal life story, an ongoing dialogue between the two arts that have accompanied her throughout the years: music and painting.
Between sound and color, between rhythm and line, and between musical harmony and harmony of shades, her works seek to continue the music even after the sound itself fades, using the paint on the canvas.
A meeting of cultures, memories and emotions
The connection between Natur and Rotem gives the exhibition another layer. One grows out of the landscapes of Dalit El Carmel, childhood memories and her cultural and spiritual world, and the other out of Haifa, the Carmel and the deep connection between painting and music.
The encounter between them offers the audience an opportunity to observe two different ways of creating, but also to discover the common denominator: the search for memory, identity, beauty, and meaning through art.
The exhibition "Duet" invites the audience to an intimate encounter with two artists and two life stories, who connect in one space for a conversation of color, memory, culture, and emotion.
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