Alef Beit
2020
During the pandemic, I created an alphabet book out of a need to work with my hands, and through conversations with my children, who offered words, ideas, and associations. Each letter was paired with drawings inspired by encyclopedias and systems of knowledge - those obsessive attempts to map, classify, and order the world. In that sense, the book draws both on colonial and imperial impulses of naming and categorizing, and on the possibility of creating new, unexpected syntax between words that happened to share the same spread.
I wanted to approach language as something open, playful, and non-didactic, allowing space for humor, freedom, and imagination. The book was published by Home‑Press.
- Copies: 24
- Pages: 50
- Type of binding: soft, paperbound
- Languages: Hebrew
- Dimensions (cm): 15/21
- Printing: Home Press
- Binding: Home Press
- Type of printing: Digital
- Publication: Tel Aviv
- Place of publication: Home Press
- Book photography: Dana Yoeli
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Dana Yoeli (b. 1979, United States) is a Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses large scale installations, video, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Her work explores the tension between personal narrative and collective ethos, examining the roles that nostalgia, memory, and commemorative ceremonies play in shaping these relationships. In recent years, Yoeli has shifted her focus from collective memory—comprising a cohesive ethos—to the fragmented, specific stories found in personal, often overlooked images and untold narratives.
Yoeli holds a BFA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited in leading galleries and museums throughout Israel and Europe, and she is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships.
