<p>Sites Unseen is a collection of six moving photography and public art projects from different European cities merging images of the Holocaust with present-day scenes and places by well-known photographer and installation artist Shimon Attie. The work documents, in photographs, Attie's series of installation art projects which were done in Europe from 1991-1996. Using a variety of media, from on-location slide projection in Berlin's former Jewish quarter to underwater light boxes in a Copenhagen canal, his hauntingly beautiful installations reanimate sites with images of their own lost histories of the Holocaust and World War II.</p>

Sites Unseen

Arts & Photography

Attie, Shimon

Photography & Video

Verve Editions

<p>For a number of years, Shimon Attie has created his own photographic palimpsests, projecting historical images onto public spaces and then photographing them, trying to bring our buried layers of memory .... "I am trying to give visual form to history and memory which is latent in the architecture and landscape of the present, latent but not visible ... I have always been interested in memory." he says. "I think a lot about the past, about my own past, and about the collective more generally, about the memory of entire communities. More than my therapeutic training. I think my temperament made me interested in revealing layers of a buried or repressed past." The projected image, Attie says, is a physical embodiment of the process of memory itself." Like memory, the projection appears to have substance and materiality, but in fact it does not - it is only photons." he says. "It's an illusion." The projections of historical photographs onto actual sites in the present have a ghostly, immaterial, ephemeral quality of fleeting memory, Mexander Stille.</p>

Shimon Attie: The History of Another

Individual Artists

Twin Palms Publishers

Sites unseen : Shimon Attie europäische Projekte : Installationen und Fotografien / mit einer Einführung von James Young ; [Übersetzungen: Reinhold Tyrach, Marion Jentzsch] (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Umschau/Braus

The writing on the wall: Projections in Berlin's Jewish quarter

Edition Braus

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