Shimon Attie
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.Collection: Thinking
There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.Collection: People
My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.Collection: Reflection
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.Collection: Community
Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.Collection: Mean
I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.Collection: Media