In a Different Place, 2015

…Sculptor Doris Arkin presents her sculpture “Failure” on the concrete floor – a square skeleton of iron ribs, which attempts to contain between its ribs an enormous mass of broken insulating glass and fragments of walls that slide through and beyond the ribs to the floor, whilst from the transparent fragments rises a kind of ladder-like metal body, resembling a springboard, that protrudes outside the semi-defined mass.

Opposite it, on the vertical strip of concrete of the adjacent wall, Arkin’s “Pieta” is cradled – a long lace tulle hanging between the “hands of the Virgin,” which are two sharp, warped pieces of tin protruding from the wall. One end of the tulle hangs in the air and the other end drags on the ground. When you look at it closely, you discover a masterpiece of hundreds of lace medallions, each embroidered with a Latin letter surrounded by perforated edges, which Arkin sewed together to create the soft, feminine, comforting sequence. Before us is a language of delicate beauty woven against the brutality of the concrete and the hurting sharpness of the “hands,” which carry it as if it were the cradling body of Christ taken down from the cross. “Failure” and “Pieta” complement each other like perfect opposites…

Uzi Tzur – Art review in Haaretz, 3.7.2015