'Home 2' (David Ellison, Isabel Karpin and Zachery Karpinellison) by Anne Zahalka
Номер объектаM2025/083:002
Название'Home 2' (David Ellison, Isabel Karpin and Zachery Karpinellison) by Anne Zahalka
Создатель Anne Zahalka (photographer)
ОписаниеType C photographic print titled 'Home 2, David Ellison, Isabel Karpin and Zachery Karpinellison' by Anne Zahalka, 1998.
This photographic print is part of the 'Home' series completed by Anne Zahalka in 1998.
Artist Statement on 'Home':
These photographs were originally exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne in an exhibition titled Haimish, a Yiddish word meaning homely, or a yearning for those things associated with home. My interest in the home stems from an interest in the occupants, the objects they collect and their considered display within these settings. The way we decorate our homes and the possessions we surround ourselves with often indicate much about who we are and what we hope to project to others.
In representing Jewish friends in their homes however, the indicators which might confirm identity are absent or unclear here. So what constitutes the Jewish home within these pictures? Is it the occupants, their physiognomy and appearance, or is it the accoutrements which surround them? How can a photograph represent Jewish consciousness or identity in a meaningful way, beyond conventional symbols?
Being born a Jew, christened a Catholic and raised with no religious rituals or tradition from an early age, these questions are difficult for me. I’ve chosen to address them here, within the context of this exhibition broadly dealing with notions of the inside and outside. In considering these images, I hope viewers might explore the values and beliefs underlying their own conception of home and the way it might be perceived by those outside it.
This photographic print is part of the 'Home' series completed by Anne Zahalka in 1998.
Artist Statement on 'Home':
These photographs were originally exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne in an exhibition titled Haimish, a Yiddish word meaning homely, or a yearning for those things associated with home. My interest in the home stems from an interest in the occupants, the objects they collect and their considered display within these settings. The way we decorate our homes and the possessions we surround ourselves with often indicate much about who we are and what we hope to project to others.
In representing Jewish friends in their homes however, the indicators which might confirm identity are absent or unclear here. So what constitutes the Jewish home within these pictures? Is it the occupants, their physiognomy and appearance, or is it the accoutrements which surround them? How can a photograph represent Jewish consciousness or identity in a meaningful way, beyond conventional symbols?
Being born a Jew, christened a Catholic and raised with no religious rituals or tradition from an early age, these questions are difficult for me. I’ve chosen to address them here, within the context of this exhibition broadly dealing with notions of the inside and outside. In considering these images, I hope viewers might explore the values and beliefs underlying their own conception of home and the way it might be perceived by those outside it.
Дата 1998 - 1998
Наименованиеphotographs
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 605.00 mm
height: 500.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum collection, donated by Anne Zahalka.
Photographed by Anne Zahalka