Roey Victoria Heifetz’s large-scale drawings typically deal with the drastic discrepancies between the social expectations and physical reality of ageing and womanhood, explored to striking effect in Trio. Identifying as a trans-woman, Heifetz’s poised inquisition of modern femininity is rendered in monumental and unglamorous terms. Her works explore the psychological and emotional journey that many women are expected to endure throughout their lives. Heifetz was born near Tel-Aviv but now resides in Berlin and often takes the women she meets or sees on the street as a starting point for her practice.
In 2019 Roey Victoria Heifetz exhibited at Third Body at Tel Aviv Artist House as well as Shabees Goy, a group exhibition at Jüdische-Kulturtage, Düsseldorf. In addition, Heifetz was the featured artist for the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale with her work Block of Clay. She was the 2018 Winner of Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Artist as well as the 2019 grant recipient for the Lottery Foundation, Mifal Hapis in Israel.
