Manja
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Manja (2010) is performance-based slide show
In Manja I used photos taken from the archives of the Israeli Kibbutz movement, where I grew up, to create personal portraits of childhood and adolescence without privacy. These photo works come to life in the studio where she uses overhead projector transparancies, film celluloid, as well as ink, mirrors and broken glasses to create series of projections, which I then captures digitally. The images activate the tension that exists between the images’ appearance as documents on one hand and abstract projections on the other hand, a tension that accentuates the the power they have to tell private stories in a public way. In aggregate the series offers an intimate viewing of an alternative order, one by which private and public are mixed in a way that is core to the human identities of both object and subject.
