Lilies of the Field #3, Jerusalem, Rachel’s Tomb, 2020

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Archive
• Botany
• Christian Boltanski
• Collective Memory
• Displacement
• Henry Fox Talbot
• Israel
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Landscape
• Middle East
• Palestine
• Portrait
• Religion
• Social
• Territory
• Trauma
• Vernacular Photography
• War

About this artwork

'Lilies of the Field' is a series of luminous prints based on a flower album the artist discovered in the American Colony archive in Jerusalem. The American Colony, founded in 1881, documented Western Asia through photography and pressed flower albums, which were sold as souvenirs to tourists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These albums reflect a romanticized, orientalist view of Jerusalem, mapping it as a mythical place tied to biblical narratives. Guez photographed and reconstructed the
dried flowers and their residual pigments, creating radiant cyanotype-like prints that reveal the gaps between historical accuracy and fabricated representations. The series highlights the passage of time and how the history of a place intertwines with the objects that represent it.

More artworks by Dor Guez

• Dor Guez Scanograms #1: Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948, 2010 Dvir Gallery €7,945
• Dor Guez Scanograms #1: Samira, Jaffa, early 1948, 2010 Dvir Gallery €7,945
• Dor Guez Scanograms #2, September 2011, Government of Palestine, Passport, El Monayer Family, 2011 Dvir Gallery €7,945
• Dor Guez Scanograms #2, September 2011, Government of Palestine, Passport, El Monayer Family, 2011 Dvir Gallery €7,945

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