Art in Focus: Dor Guez features an installation-based work that mines the personal histories and artifacts of the art and his family, which blends Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian heritage. Excavating his private archive of objects—from humble buttons to a red vest sewn by his grandmother—placed in glass-enclosed vitrines, Guez transforms the relics of the past to channel untold—and often forgotten—histories. In Belly of the Boat, Guez displays the belongings of his Tunisian Jewish grandparents—Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel in 1951—treating them as symbols of both personal and communal memory; and the photographic series Letters from the Greater Maghreb, based on a water-damaged Judeo-Tunisian Arabic play by his grandfather, which metaphorically unites languages, homelands, and identities.
The Jewish Museum