Sheikh, Fazal, 1965- artist, author.

Erasure : the erasure trilogy / Fazal Sheikh.

First edition.

Göttingen : Steidl, 2015.

4 volumes (103 pages, 164 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 136 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 28 cm

"The Erasure Trilogy explores the anguish caused by the loss of memory - by forgetting, amnesia or suppression - and the resulting human desire to preserve memory, all seen through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Memory Trace, the first project in the trilogy, depicts the ruins caused by the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: portraits of those traumatized by violence, devastated landscapes and fragments of buildings. This visual poem suggests the irreparable loss of a lingering past that augurs a painful and difficult future. Tracing the ironic consequences of David Ben-Gurion's dream of settling the Negev and making the "desert bloom," the aerial photographs in Sheikh's Desert Bloom reveal the myriad actions that have displaced and erased the Bedouins who have lived in the desert for generations. Here we see the extreme transformation of the landscape through erosion, mining, military training camps, the demolition of villages and afforestation. Through Sheikh's lens the desert becomes both an archive of violence and a record of human attempts to erase it. The essential text accompanying Desert Bloom (in the publication, Desert Bloom Notes) explores the historical and contemporary clues along the shifting surface of the desert, and what lies hidden, sealed within Sheikh's aerial landscapes of the Negev. Independence / Nakba consists of sixty-five diptychs - one for each year since 1948 - pairing people from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of gradually increasing age. The double portraits query the relations between Israelis and Palestinians before the founding of the Israeli State (each image depicts either someone who lived in Palestine before the founding of the Israeli State, or someone whose ancestors did)."--Author's website.
"Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world."--Author's website.
Memory trace: "Presenting images of the ruins left behind by the violence of '48, portraits of persons whose lives have been touched by this violence and ruin, and landscapes that bear the traces of devastation ..."--Author's website.
Desert bloom: "Tracing the consequences of Ben-Gurion's dream of settling the Negev and making the 'desert bloom'"--Author's website.
Independence / Nakba: " ... consists of a series of 65 diptychs--one diptych for each year between 1948 and 2013--that places together portraits of persons from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of gradually increasing age."--Author's website.

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Sheikh, Fazal, 1965-
Photography, Artistic 21st century.
Portrait photography 21st century.
Aerial photography Israel 21st century.
Aerial photography West Bank 21st century.
Aerial photography Middle East 21st century.
Memory in art 21st century.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle.
Portraits (Photographie) 21e siècle.
Photographie aérienne Israël 21e siècle.
Photographie aérienne Cisjordanie 21e siècle.
Memory in art
Aerial photography
Photography, Artistic
Portrait photography
Israel Pictorial works 21st century.
Jerusalem Pictorial works 21st century.
Palestine Pictorial works 21st century.
West Bank Pictorial works 21st century.
Middle East Pictorial works 21st century.
Israel In art 21st century.
Jerusalem In art 21st century.
Palestine In art 21st century.
West Bank In art 21st century.
Middle East In art 21st century.
Cisjordanie Ouvrages illustrés 21e siècle.
Cisjordanie Dans l'art 21e siècle.
West Bank
Middle East Palestine
Middle East Jerusalem
Middle East
Israel

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