Scanograms #2, September 2011, Government of Palestine, Passport, El Monayer Family, 2011

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

"Scanograms # 2", September 2011, offers a visual disorder in the Zionist-Israeli narrative, which was designed in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The project not only relates to the history of the Palestinians, but also to the modern narrative of nationality designing. It opens a door to contemplating the regime of identities in general, and Palestinian and Israeli identities in particular. By bringing together historical narratives with personal stories, the installation enables the viewer to examine his/her own cultural, national, aesthetic, and political perceptions.

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 #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

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