Alt For Hersleb
Anonymous
Yvette Brackman
Charter 08
Evol
Alicia Frankovich
Tu Fu
Khaled Hourani
Marianne Hurum
Yuan Jiang
Leif Elggren
Lars Laumann
& Vela Arbutina

Steve Roden
Roee Rosen
Rafael Rozendaal
Patrick Tsai
Hua Yan
Wen Zhengmin
Florian Zeyfang
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Statement
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2009
2008

     
 

Beyond Guilt


I was invited along with a number of other artists to do a work for a special magazine of the Haaretz Daily Newspaper, marking the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel.

The Hebrew inscription reads "Beyond Guilt." The obvious context is that of the occupation and its victims, but "Beyond Guilt" is also part of the title of a Jean Amery book: "Beyond Guilt and Atonement" (1976) in which he describes his experiences undergoing torture while imprisoned by the Nazis, and the breaking of the human spirit the experience entailed. Finally, the title also served for a trilogy of videos by Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir, wherein the erotic imaginary (as well as plain fun) of Israeli youth seem fully inscribed by the experience of the military.