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Shimon Attie1993
- Attribution
- Shimon Attie American, born 1957
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Physical dimensions
- Image, sight: 44 × 53.9 cm (17 3/8 × 21 1/4 in.); Frame: 64 × 73.6 × 3.1 cm (25 1/4 × 29 × 1 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Igor M. DaCosta
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Shimon Attie, trained as a psychotherapist, made his series The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter soon after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Attie projected archival images of Jews from the Scheunenviertel, taken before the Holocaust, onto facades in the exact spots in Berlin where the original images had been taken. The projections formed a temporary public art project, while the photographs documenting them resulted in the prints seen here. In one picture, the shop window of a kosher butcher is superimposed on a graffiti-covered wall, underscoring the rift between the neighborhood’s past of bustling commerce and its present derelict state, while others give the impression that displaced Jewish residents have returned to repossess their homes.
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