#rotem rozental

[redgriffun]

Rotem Rozentals review/introduction to this work of Robert Russell is profound.

I would only add I think there is another layer to the objects 'shininess'. I agree that it speaks to the dangerous horror of the Third Reich systems 'benign facade of happy unity'. But even further, the glistening porcelain, it's sickly cuteness, also speaks to me of the vacuity of fascist ideology, it's depopulating of the living.

These paintings speak to me of the terror of the empty eye sockets of the mask that has replaced the person.

This is literally the stuff of my nightmares.

[israelstudiesucla]

May 20 (11am PDT) via Zoom – A Conversation with Artist Dor Guez: Archives, Narrative and Memory.

Jerusalem-born artist and scholar Dor Guez has been producing groundbreaking work at the intersection of photography, video and archives since the early 2000s. Guez's work resonates globally and contributes to broader conversations about nationality and its impact on locality and the individual. Guez is head of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

In this event, join Professor Guez and Dr. Rotem Rozental, as they discuss his recent work. Registration is required to obtain a Zoom login. Details and RSVP: https://ucla.in/3rMs0Iq

About the Event: Combining historical ethos with individual tales, Dor Guez's artistic practice reflects the structural and formal tensions between the artificial and the natural, imitation and origin. In this lecture, Guez will explore the relationship between language, displacement, and entangled perceptions of nature, home and identity. Existing at the cross-point between historical archives, contemporary photography, and video, the lecture will explore the artist’s most recent work, Lillies of the Field, in collaboration with the American Colony Archive in Jerusalem, among the first to capture “The Holy Land” at the second half of the 19th century. Lilies of the Field tackles how representations of the landscape, explicitly or implicitly, are subjugated to Orientalist precepts.

Additionally, Guez will draw insight from two other archives in which the artist has been working with over a decade: the Pinchas Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research in Tel Aviv, one of the most extensive Zionist archives in Israel, and the Christian Palestinian Archive, which the artist established in 2006.

About the Speakers:

Dor Guez is professor at Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He is the founder of the Christian-Palestinian Archive, the head of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Bezalel, and the co-director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency.

Discussant Rotem Rozental is chief curator and senior director of arts and culture at American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Program sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Information Studies.

Above Image Credit: Dor Guez/Archival Print: Lilies of the Field #1, Bethlehem, Grotte of the Nativity, 2018 (Detail)