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Hagar Cygler
2017
An edition of 50 handmade boxes, with five double-sided, folded photographs per box. Each box contains different photographs. The photos are from a collection of family photos gathered from around the world. They do not originate from the same family album; they do not belong to anyone yet they belong to all of us, thereby allowing the viewer to see themselves in them, even without having a personal acquaintance with any of the figures that appear in them. The photographs are printed in different sizes and folded in the method of a folded letter, postcard collections, maps and more. The experience of viewing the photographs requires patience—opening and unfolding a photograph in order to reveal its many details and sides, an experience that enables an intimate reading of an unidentified photograph. The project was also presented as an installation where visitors were invited to sit and look at all the photographs.
- Pages: 42
- Type of binding: Poster booklet
- Dimensions (cm): 15X21
- Place of publication: Warsaw, Poland
- Supported by: POLIN Museum, Warsaw
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.
