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Letters to Claude Lanzmann 2021 \ Bedtime Stories 2017

2021
Letters to Claude Lanzmann

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board. The works are based on transcripts of interviews conducted by Lanzmann with various witnesses in his film "Shoah," his monumental masterpiece from 1985. The central image in each of the works is a single page from the book “Shoah”.  *

The film is a sequence of testimonies in which Lanzmann attempts to evoke the memories of the witnesses. However, the testimony also includes forgetting, embarrassment, confusion, and silence. People repeatedly recount that although they were eyewitnesses to the atrocities, they did not always understand the meaning of things in real-time

The series of works "Letters to Claude Lanzmann" offers the erased texts as an alternative image: on one hand, the erased parts bring to mind images of unmarked maps (silent maps) or aerial photographs of architectural places whose purpose remains undeciphered; on the other hand, it is an attempt to illustrate that silence (erasure) is no less significant than speech (text), especially in situations of trauma.



*Shoah: the complete text of the acclaimed Holocaust film Shoah, Pantheon Book, 1985 N.Y

the series took part in Adar Bechar's solo exhibition Letters to Claude Lanzmann. Curator:Ami Raviv, Nulobaz cooperative art space ,2021, Tel Aviv.

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2017
Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories, Installation view from Spreading Out, Group Exhibition. Curator: Shlomit Breuer. Basis for Art and Culture,Herzliya  spray paint on velvet paper, 50X70 cm (each painting), 2017.

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