b. 1981, Israel Lives and works in Tel Aviv Aline Alagem employs hyper-realism, reflection and duplication to question notions of beauty and violence. Hyper-realism is a Maximalistic practice. In her painting installations the viewer is left gazing ambivalently at instances of violent beauty, at once repulsed and seduced. Her work looks at contemporary fascination with horrific imagery – does the beauty of the image itself surpass what it represents?