Scanograms #1: Samira, Jaffa, early 1948, 2010

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

The meaning of the term Scanograms is literally drawing with a scanner machine. Every Scanogram is made by three layers of scanning, each scan is programmed to feature a different aspect of the material, and then the artist composes the layers into one image. These fifteen scanograms , dating from 1938-1958, portray a woman, Samira, and her family. Each of the images documents an important event in their lives while they were together before Samira's family was exiled from Jaffa and dispersed to Lod, Amman, Cyprus, Cairo, and London.
One of these works depict Samira's wedding in the Lod Ghetto in 1949, one year after what was a significant date for them: July 13, 1948. The day when her hometown was conquered by Israeli military forces.

Guez's photography, video installations, essays, and lecture-performances explore the relationship between art, narrative, trauma, memory, and displacement. Interrogating personal experiences and official accounts of the past, he raises questions about contemporary art's role in narrating unwritten histories and re-contextualizing visual and written documents.

More artworks by Dor Guez

• Dor Guez Lilies of the Field #3, Jerusalem, Rachel’s Tomb, 2020 Dvir Gallery €7,000
• 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 #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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