Whisper of Memory
Belle Shafir
2016
Made from 2014 to 2016, this book deals with pictures of the artist's family archive, which she dared to open. From those photos, she creates images for her drawings and videos. The sequence of scenes and the multitude of images one next to each other and one above the other flood the viewer and disrupts his/her orientation. The intensive encounter with the images conflicts with the gap that exists between what she can remember from a specific situation taking place in her mind and extracting a memory from a photo in which the situation was captured by one photographer or another.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 25
- Type of binding: Bristol paperback
- Dimensions (cm): 30x12
- Type of printing: Collage
- Publication: Belle Shafir
- Place of publication: Atelier Belle Shafir, Tel Aviv
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Belle Shafir is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Germany and based in Israel since 1972. For over two decades, she has been active both in Israel and internationally, creating work characterized by thematic and material diversity. Her process-based practice merges global influences and reflects her exploration of a multifaceted, often conflicted identity that shifts between cultures. Working across all visual media at the intersection of culture and technology for the past 25 years, Shafir also integrates personal symbols into her work, including the creation of a book shaped by her own unique visual language.
