ABOUT

“Vibra”, 2:11 min, 2007

In Vibra, Alma Shneor presents a woman in a red dress lying on her back beneath unending rain, filmed through a pane of glass. Her trembling shifts from shivers of cold to near-convulsive motion, oscillating between pain, ecstasy, and surrender. The continuous rainfall and distant echo of an ambulance siren evoke both catastrophe and trance.

The figure’s posture—open palms, upward gaze—suggests helplessness and spiritual exposure, recalling the imagery of Ophelia. Shneor transforms vibration into Vibra, a name that redefines femininity through the uncontrollable symptom: trembling as a physical language of affect, hysteria, and endurance.

Born: 1978, Tel Aviv

Lives and works: Tel Aviv

Fields: Video, photography, sculpture, sound, and installation

Alma Shneor is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of body,

memory, and emotion. Through video, sculpture, and photographic experimentation, she

investigates the threshold between visibility and disappearance, control and surrender, pain

and transcendence. Her process often involves intuitive, sensory gestures—such as

photographing “with closed eyes”—to access subconscious layers of experience.

In 2025, she created the public sculpture “Sun drawings for Tel Aviv”, permanently

installed in Sarona Gardens, Tel Aviv. The work extends her visual language into the urban

landscape, translating her exploration of light, trace, and corporeality into a spatial,

communal experience.

Shneor is a graduate of Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College (2006). She has

received the Young Artist Award (Israel Ministry of Culture, 2009) and the Artist in the

Community Award (2014). Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel

and abroad, including the Haifa Museum of Art and the Tel Aviv Museum, and are held in public and private collections.