The Artist Dor Guez Examines the Layered Histories of Jerusalem at the Princeton University Art Museum

New Jersey Stage , November 28, 2022
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 twentieth 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. 
 
“The powerful work by Dor Guez is a potent and visually arresting rejoinder to the idea that histories are ever settled,” said James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director of the Princeton University Art Museum.
 
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