In his photography-centered multimedia practice, the artist Dor Guez considers the roles of art, architecture, music, and monuments in shaping the identity of a place. His work is a form of storytelling that focuses on unwritten histories. Colony / Dor Guez features photographs, installations, and the US premiere of a video that the artist created based on historical photographs in the archives of the American Colony. Established in Jerusalem in 1881, the American Colony was a Christian community formed by a group of American and then Swedish expats who maintained their philanthropic commune through Ottoman, British, Jordanian, and Israeli rule. In the early twentieth century, the American Colony produced and sold hundreds of photographic views as souvenirs of the region. Guez mines these holdings, selecting photographs that contain latent histories of the multiple communities who draw connections between their identity and this geography. He mirrors, juxtaposes, enlarges, and filters these pictures to reveal how they accrue meanings over time and offer shifting views of the region’s past and present. Curated by Mitra M. Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Art@Bainbridge | Colony / Dor Guez
Saturday, December 10, 2022 - Sunday, February 12, 2023
Dor Guez, Locust #10, 2022. Collection of the artist. © Dor Guez, courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; and Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Joshua R. Slocum, Class of 1998, and Sara Slocum; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis.
Virtual exhibition tours are made possible through a partnership with MASK Consortium and a Humanities Council Magic Grant.
