This series of works consolidate through investigating the subject of Memory, from personal to common or collective, processes of memorizing and recollecting, memory and imagination, forgetting.
Most of the pictures are again done in the technique of shooting many detailed frames, later on to be composed together side-by-side and one on top of the other, to create a whole image containing fragments of time and space, to an almost-realistic image.
Agnon's Library
This room was S.Y. Agnon's very private "temple", containing over 8,000 books.
The image was taken shortly before the room's entire content had been tagged, disassembled and packed in boxes, sent to storage while the house goes through renovation and some of the books to restoration. This process resembles the photographic technique in which the room is being photographed in small parts, stored in (digital) memory and then rebuilt in an almost precise way, but not exactly. There is a gap between the stage of memorizing (observing and documenting the space), and the stage of recollecting (the time when the photographs are reconstructed). I relate to these memory-gaps in my works, traces of the memorizing-remembering process are embedded in them .
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