Dor Guez

Dor Guez

BornNationalityBased In
N/AIsraeliJaffa
Biography

Dor Guez is an artist and scholar who was born to a famliy mixed of Palestinian and Jewish immigrants from North Africa. He uses photography and video to examine his complex heritage as a descendant of both Arab Christians and Jewish Holocaust survivors, and examines questions of identity in relation to the formation of modern Israel. Examples of this in his practice include a set of films featuring his Christian Arab family members discussing their place in Israeli society and a series of photographs of the town of Lod, which was historically a Christian-Arab village before it was taken over by Israel. For the past two decades, his research and art have centered around archival materials and photographs from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as examining the impact of violence on the landscape. Guez is interested in interrogating personal experiences and official accounts of the past and aims to complicate the dominant narrative of official history by sharing the perspectives of marginalized communities, attempting to re-contextualize visual and written documents in order to uncover hidden histories. ...

Selected Artworks
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (8)
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (8), 2021
36 x 89.8cm
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (7)
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (7), 2021
36 x 65.6cm
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (5)
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #1 (5), 2021
36 x 45.4cm
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #1
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #1, 2021
90 x 63.7cm
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #8
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #8, 2021
90 x 63.7cm
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #5
Dor Guez
Letters from the Greater Maghreb #2 #5, 2021
90 x 63.7cm
Lilies of the field #3, Jerusalem, Mount Zion
Dor Guez
Lilies of the field #3, Jerusalem, Mount Zion, 2020
54 x 41cm
Lilies of the field #3, Tiberias from the Lake
Dor Guez
Lilies of the field #3, Tiberias from the Lake, 2020
54 x 41cm
Lilies of the Field #4, Grotto of the Nativity
Dor Guez
Lilies of the Field #4, Grotto of the Nativity, 2020
175 x 145cm
Scanograms #1: Georgette Monayer, Samira's older sister, with a friend behind holding her, Jaffa, 1938
Dor Guez
Scanograms #1: Georgette Monayer, Samira's older sister, with a friend behind holding her, Jaffa, 1938, 2010
60 x 75cm
Scanograms #1: Samira and Jacob's wedding, Lod Ghetto, 1949
Dor Guez
Scanograms #1: Samira and Jacob's wedding, Lod Ghetto, 1949, 2010
60 x 75cm
Scanograms #1: Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948
Dor Guez
Scanograms #1: Samira in her wedding gown, the first Christian wedding in Lod after 1948, 2010
60 x 75cm
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