Artist Talk with Dana Arieli and Sandra Oehy

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Artist Talk in English language with Israeli artist Dana Arieli and Swiss curator Sandra Oehy

on occasion of the Opening of their exhibition COAL SCARS as part of the conference with photography from the series Coal Scars: Album of the South at IGmA Exhbition Space.



The series ‘Coal Scars’ includes creations by Dana Arieli, a history professor and a photographer born and based in Jerusalem. Arieli documents the scars in the Western Negev - South of Israel since 2014.


On October 7, 2021 she opened a solo exhibition under the same title in Yad Mordechai Museum in the south of Israel. The exhibition was devoted to documenting the relics of various military operations as well as wounded landscapes that bare testimony to previous wars, mainly 1948 Israeli Independence War, and to the exclusion of the Palestinian past in those territories so close to the Gaza Strip. She was certain the work on the series was completed.



Following the events of October 7, 2023 and the brutal massacre of her friend Gideon Pauker, that was about to celebrate his 80th birthday a few days after, she went back to Kibbutz Nir Oz and started documenting there again the atrocities of the terror attack. In this exhibition we can see a combination of her works mainly form the cities of Ofakim and Sderot as well as the Kibbutzim of Nir Oz, Nahal Oz, Be’eri and Nativ Ha’asara. Three of her works are included in the exhibition In Their Image: Album Darom at Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Arieli published recently the book Album Darom: Israeli Photographers in Tribute to citizens of the South in which 107 Israeli Photographers participate. (Yediot Ahronot books, Tel Aviv, 2024). This is a preliminary commemoration album to the events of October 7.

She is currently working on North Album using the same concept.

Further information about the exhibition, the artist and about her work check the IGmA Website: https://www.igma.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/news/veranstaltung/COAL-SCARS--Photography-exhibition-by-Dana-Arieli

Redaktion:
Leo Herrmann, Sandra Oehy

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