The Zionist Phantom
Dana Arieli
2021
Limited Edition
The Zionist Phantom deals with the gradual disappearance of the Zionist Ideology and with the trauma the Israeli Society is constantly exposed to. The photography project focuses on places where scares are still apparent. The wounded landscape the photographer wonder through are sites of war and terror. Monuments serves as a memory to what happened in those places. The photographer also document major locations for the zionist movements who are now neglected or in the process of losing their importance. The Artist book is basically a box with 188 postcards and a book which include a similar number of written comments to the images of Arieli's project. There is also a dictionary of private and major concepts that revels some of the artist motivation to deal with those topics.
- Copies: 300
- Pages: 600
- Type of binding: box with postcards and a book with softcover
- Dimensions (cm): 40x30x18
- Printing: Rayten Printing Ltd
- Binding: Rayten Printing Ltd
- Type of printing: Digital Printing
- Publication: Self Publication
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Eran Yuvsl
Professor Dana Arieli is a researcher and a photographer. Arieli’s research deals with the interrelations between Art and Politics in both Totalitarian and Democratic political systems. She has completed her Ph.d. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Photography in Camera Obscura and Bazelel. Between 2012 and 2018 Arieli served as the Dean of Design Faculty at HIT, Holon Institute of Technology, where she is teaching today. Between 2004-2012 she served as the head of the History and Theory Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She wrote a collection and published dozens of books and articles. She recently won a commendation from the Kipa Award.
