THIS PLACE CATALOGUE
イスラエルとヨルダン川西岸に住む人々の文化的、国際的、個人的生活の複雑さに焦点をあて、国際的注目をあつめる12人のアーティストが参加したプロジェクト「This Place」の成果をまとめた一冊。参加アーティストの一人であるフレデリック・ブレナーの発案ではじまった。各作家による作品をとおして被写体の生活や文化を写し出した。キュレーターのシャーロット・コットン(Charlotte Cotton)による編集。2014年10月にチェコ・DOXアートセンターでの展覧会を皮切りに、世界中に巡回が予定されている。
主な作品収録作家:Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington
This Place explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers, each of whom use photography to ask essential questions about culture, society and the inner lives of individuals. The photographers, all outsiders to Israeli and Palestinian society, represent an array of nationalities, cultures, and visual grammars; they are Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington. As each artist pursues their own line of investigation, what emerges is a dissonant and startling portrait; together, the highly individualised works combine to create not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait, alive to all the rifts and paradoxes of this important and much contested space. This book accompanies a monumental exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton, which features more than 600 images, all newly-commissioned work, the product of four years of artist residencies. It includes an essay by the curator and extensive interviews with each of the participating artists.