Open AccessImage of the Absent
Author(s) -
Ayellet Ben Ner
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
persona studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2205-5258
DOI - 10.21153/ps2015vol1no2art502
Subject(s) - hebrew , tel aviv , the holocaust , persona , art , art history , reading (process) , visual arts , literature , history , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , theology , computer science , humanities , library science
Image on the Absent, which might be described as a fictional life writing, seeks after the right assemblage of visual qualities that can depict a persona. This project exists in its Hebrew version in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art library and was exhibited in Sifria Balayla (Night Library) (Jerusalem 2014) and in the Artport artists book fair (Tel Aviv 2014). The project is inspired by notorious Adolf Eichmann, here a protagonist exploring his own image through self-revelatory confessions. These confessions are received and reproduced by a female sex worker. The English translation of the project was made by Ella Levenbach. Thanks are due to Yad Vashem, World Center for Holocaust Research, for permission to reproduce many of the images used in this piece.