Don't Take it to Heart
Hagar Cygler
2023
Don't take it to heart interweaves the work of archival research of an apartment building in Poland. The book offers multi-directional reading: from the inside out, left to right and more, yet leafing through it does not give answers - photographs and documents keep folding into each other and refuse to present the full picture.
Don't take it to heart seeks to summarize a genealogical and visual study that deals with family history and connects personal and national, historical and political narratives. It deals with the question of memory, the one that exists and the one that is lost, the personal and the collective, and how it is bound in the medium of photography.
This book is the final part of a series of works presented simultaneously in Israel and Poland. It is handmade using Cyanotype printing and printed in a limited edition.
- Copies: 10
- Pages: 46
- Type of binding: Paper, Accordion binding
- Dimensions (cm): 9X13.5X3
- Type of printing: Cyanotype
- Publication: Self
- Supported by: Asylum Arts
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Hagar Cygler (1979), works and lives in Jaffa. She holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy for Art and design and an MFA from CalArts - California Institute of the Arts. She works in the larger context of archives and collections, focusing on the classification and reorganization of material and information. Her focus is on personal and historical memory, and by connecting photographs with personal and anonymous objects, she explores the act of collecting and its role within the archive as cultural memory.
