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Ilana Salam-Ortar
“The Camp of the Jews”: Uprooting, Refugeeism and Immigration, 1998–2005, installation The documentary You Are My Witnesses included in the installation, was produced by Geva Films for Keren Hayesod and The Jewish Agency in 1963. Length: 18 min “At the end of World War II, Marseille housed political prisoners, exiles and refugees in 130 ‘barracks’. […] From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, Holocaust refugees from Europe and Jewish
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Oliver Michaels
Train, 2003-2004, video, 13 min. This video piece depicts a ride on top of a model train ride through various rooms in a domestic space. What appears as a homogenous space through whose walls the train (and the camera) passes turns out to be a fusion of different rooms from multiple houses via simple editing. A closer look reveals the differences. Shot in England, the work generates a journey between economic and social classes, and between different ways of life. It maps
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Peter Richards
Peter Richard’s photographs, made with large pin-hole cameras, show a series of memorials. In a society battered by conflict and haunted by history, “memorials,” he says, “express choices made between what will be forgotten and what remembered – and by
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Susan MacWilliam
The process of heroization is the subject of Susan MacWilliam’s Kuda Bux, echoing another figure whose relevance depends mainly on the beholder’s belief. Kuda Bux was an Indian mystic made famous during the 1930s and 1940s by his vaudeville demonstrations of eyeless
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Mary McIntyre
The images in Mary McIntyre’s photographs maintain a constant dialogue with the Romantics, touching upon the sublime as expressed by the human presence in the landscape. In her nocturnal vistas, however, we the spectators are invited to venture into dark and endless paths leading
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Dan Shipsides
Dan Shipsides literally takes us to a different dimension, exploring the idea of movement in space. An accomplished rock-climber, Shipsides dedicated many of his works to this activity, often performing, documenting or describing climbs.
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