Yuval Barel (1982, Jerusalem) is a Berlin-based contemporary painter whose work unfolds the metaphysical lacuna between ideology, psychotheology, and primordial love. Embracing a dystopian approach to art, Barel perceives painting as a counteraction—an act of resistance, a nonsensical vision, a wild prayer imbued with a revolutionary spark.

Barel’s practice is rooted in an independent exploration of visual language and conceptual depth. His paintings confronts "the real" through a dynamic system of contradictions and paradoxes, oscillating between expression and erasure, revelation and concealment. This Sisyphean endeavor transforms into an absurd ritual suffused with mystical undertones, when what remains is a silent witness to an inevitable, yet hopeless, struggle.

"Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley” (job 31:40)