Dor Guez | Letters from the Greater Maghreb | Curated by Tamar Dresdner
“Pointing out an affinity between the story of an artist’s life and the story of his work requires extreme caution, since the circumstances of the artist’s life are not necessarily directly related to his artistic expression” writes Dr. Dor Guez in his book “Pre-Israeli Orientalism: A Photographic Portrait.”
Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Letters from the Greater Maghreb, Dor Guez’ first solo exhibition on the African continent.
Dor Guez, an artist and scholar, was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda on his mother’s side and North African Jewish immigrants on his father’s side. As a member of a multi-ethnic family, some of his work’s raw materials originate in this complex and multicultural family history. However, the personal is always a departure point for a broader universal context and an in-depth exploration of the interrelations between identity, language, trauma, and memory.
Artworks
About
Dor Guez
Dor Guez Munayer’s (b. Jerusalem) practice comprises photography, video, installations, and sculpture. Through multimedia performances, Guez transforms art into a vehicle for storytelling. During a recent performance at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, he examined multi-colonial projections looking at different historical resources. His latest overview, “Catastrophe,” at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá in 2022, spanned a wide range of works that reflect the artist’s engagement with his communities and the ever-evolving studies of the Mediterranean Basin.
Guez’s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2023); Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück (2023); MAMBO: Museum of Modern Art, Bogota (2022); Kunst im Kreuzgang, Bielefeld (2021); Futura Gallery, Prague, (2020); American Colony Archive, Jerusalem (2019); MAN Museum, Nuoro (2018); the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2016); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015) the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts (2013); The Mosaic Rooms, A.M Qattan Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Arab Culture & Art, London (2013) and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010).
Guez’s works are included in public collections such as Tate Modern London, Center Pompidou Paris, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, LACMA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, The Jewish Museum New York, Rose Art Museum, FRAC collection Marseille, Museum of Modern Art Bogota, and more.
Dor Guez Munayer lives and works between Jaffa and Athens.
Download full CV