Shimon Lev

Vortrag im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts MemScreen. Vortragssprache Englisch.

The artist and photographer Shimon Lev will present 3 of his recent projects:

Schizophrenia (Shassa’at) 2011
Fence here Fence There, 2009
Big Geniza little Geniza, 2007

The Works of Shimon Lev are dealing with the artists identity as a Jew and Israeli, his experiences serving in the Israeli forces and the process of abandoning religion. He describes a state of “Schizophrenia” as part of normal life in Israel as well as the complicated present identity
of his family and their background in Vienna and Berlin.