Chen Sobol (b. 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Jerusalem. She holds a BFA from the Screen-Based Arts Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2025), with a specialization in animation. Her practice centers on paper sculpture and stop-motion animation using a unique technique developed with this material.

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Sobol participated in an artist residency at Kol HaOt Gallery in Jerusalem, and her films have been screened at the “Rega Cut” Festival at HaMiffal and the Jewish Performing Arts Festival at Beit Mazia. In addition to her artistic work, she served as an assistant curator at The Shelter Gallery and worked as a sculptor for the stop-motion film ״The Old Woman and the Sea״, produced by Tom & Hani Studio. She currently takes part in the Cultural Greenhouse program by Tarbut Movement.

 

״When Will I Be Able to Sit?״ is an installation centered around the image of a broken chair, sculpted from torn paper shaped like the peeling bark of a tree. The fragility of the material and the way it’s torn emphasize the chair’s instability and its inability to offer rest.

 

The disintegrating chair is hollow. It appears light, almost floating, and cannot be leaned upon. The peeling wood, often seen in nature as a symbol of renewal, here becomes an empty shell - with nothing underneath. Through this fragile image, the artist addresses her own feelings of dissolution and instability, arising from the transition out of school and into adulthood, alongside the upheaval of Israeli reality since the events of October 7th. Her work poses a sharp, direct question: Can we ever find a moment of rest and stability within such a trembling reality?