“Colony / Dor Guez” Exhibit Now at Art@Bainbridge

Town Topics , December 14, 2022
Jaffa-based artist Dor Guez’s penetrating transformations of early 20th-century photographs of Jerusalem are the subject of a thought-provoking exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum’s galleries at Art@Bainbridge. The exhibition, titled “Colony / Dor Guez,” will be on view through February 12.
 
“Colony / Dor Guez” brings together photography, film, and installation works the artist created from five years of research in the archives of the American Colony, a charitable Christian community of Americans, and later Swedes, established in Jerusalem in 1881. In the first decades of the 20th century, the artists of the American Colony created hundreds of photographic views of Jerusalem and its surroundings that they disseminated to an international audience eager to see the sites that, described in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim texts, came to be known as the Holy Land. Guez transforms these historical photographs, exploring the ways that photography was employed to construct an image of the region. 
 
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