"The Zionist Phantom" Closing Event

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 PM Boston Time
Via Zoom

Learn more and register: https://www.brandeis.edu/israel-center/events/index.html#phantom
Free and open to all. Advanced registration required.

Join us to mark the closing of Dana Arieli’s virtual exhibition, “The Zionist Phantom,” organized by Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. This live conversation will expand upon the themes emerging from the exhibition, suggesting new and exciting connections between international artists, ideas and creative projects that explore collective histories, personal traumas and their presence in public spaces.

Prof. Adriana Katzew will present her photographic work in conversation with Dr. Shayna Weiss. Katzew has been unearthing stories and memories of people, moments and places, inspired and driven by the history of her own Mexican-Jewish family. Prof. Dana Arieli will then join the discussion to address some of the similarities and differences between their works. Moderated by the exhibition curator, Dr. Rotem Rozental.

About the Exhibition
In “The Zionist Phantom,” Prof. Dana Arieli shapes a panoramic view of a landscape defined by the uneasy presence of its missing limbs. With dozens of photographs captured across Israel from the 1980s to the present, the exhibition presents abandoned and active spaces, unfinished buildings, military presence in civilian areas, sites of collective remembrance and personal loss, exhuming the past lives of the sites, of what will never return.

Photo credit: Dana Arieli, “Quneitra, 2018”