‘Clemens’ is a unique wall light sculpture reminiscent of biomorphic forms. Part of Ayala Serfaty’s world-renowned ‘SOMA’ series—her ethereal "clouds"—it embodies a dialogue between materiality and light, drawing its name from the Greek word for the human body. Serfaty’s work is held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, as well as the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Each ‘SOMA’ piece is meticulously handcrafted from thin glass rods, individually flame-worked until they soften and fuse. Gradually, a true glass lace structure emerges, before being coated with a translucent polymer that softens and diffuses the light. The visible glass veins beneath this diaphanous skin evoke both the strength and fragility of human beings.

While evoking drifting clouds, crystalline snow, coral formations, or lichens, ’SOMA’ eludes definition. The interplay of light and these living forms, which seem to shift between one and the other, allows the work to transcend its materiality, drawing the viewer into an experience of the sublime. For Ayala Serfaty does not sculpt nature; rather, she gives form to the breath of life itself.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1962, Ayala Serfaty is a graduate in Fine Arts of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and of Middlesex Polytechnic in London. Her work has been exhibited in leading museums worldwide, including the London Design Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her pieces are part of major museum collections across the United States, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Mint Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Indianapolis Museum of Art.