Collection: BODY CUTS/ EMBBODIED GRACE
PHOTOGRAPHER OF HUMAN GRACE
THE MULTIPLICITY OF BEING
I perform in front of my camera as an act of embodiment — not to stage an image of myself, but to reveal what presence produces within lived experience.
Presence is often named as something elusive, almost ineffable. Rather than attempting to represent it, my work departs from a sustained practice of its investigation through the body itself. Over years of intensive training, I have explored movement, dance, improvisation, and somatic practices as ways of refining attention, perception, and physical intelligence.
This long-term engagement with the body has led me to understand alignment not as a fixed form, but as a dynamic relation to gravity, space, and perception — a continuous reorganization of inner states and of our relationship to the world and to others. As a Certified Rolfer®, I work with structural and perceptual coherence, where the body is approached as an intelligent system in constant adaptation.
My practice unfolds across choreography, performance, writing, and photography. Writing and movement are inseparable: they arise from the same embodied source, where thought is not separate from sensation, but generated through it.
In front of the camera, I direct, choreograph, and film dancers, performers, actors, and individuals encountered in everyday life. I search for the precise threshold where presence becomes fully active — when the body no longer performs an image of itself, but enters a state of openness, intensity, and abandonment.
What interests me is not representation, but revelation: those fragile moments in which the body escapes self-image and becomes pure relation — to time, to gravity, to others.
Each encounter, including those with strangers in the street, becomes a potential field of attention and shared embodiment, where grace appears not as aesthetic ideal, but as a lived, transient condition of being.
Keren'Or
Visual Artist – Choreographer – Performer – Photographer – Writer – Videomaker
Researcher in Visual Arts, the Thinking Body, Philosophy, Dance and Movement Science.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2008 — Simone Michelle Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography in London
2004 — DNAP (with unanimous distinction) – École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy
2006 — DNSEP (with unanimous distinction) – École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy
2025 — Master 2 in Art, Photography and Performance at Ensapc (with unanimous distinction)
Certified Rolfer®, Pilates & Garuda® instructor, Yoga & contemplative practices
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