Shimon attie biography books
Six Years: An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art, The Rubin Foundation, Hirmer · Eyes Open: Photography Ideas for Curious.
Shimon Attie: The History of Another....
Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist.
His artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places, accompanying art photographs, immersive multiple-channel video and mixed-media installations for museums and galleries, and new media works.
For two decades, Attie has made art that allows us to reflect on the relationship between place, memory and identity.
In many of his projects, he engages local communities in finding new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures, and explores how contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place and identity.
He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration.
In earlier works, Attie has used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, and how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the p