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Memories of Imagined Places, 2010
Maj Hasager
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Memories of Imagined Places is a work of photographic and textual historiography that investigates the construction of contemporary space through architecture, the relation to the past and through collective and inherited memory. The point of departure within the work is Palestinian villages that existed before 1948, and sites have been selected on the basis of young Palestinians’ inherited memories of their families’ villages being destroyed and depopulated. The descriptions of these villages told by young Palestinians (age 17-29), introduce the viewer to different landscapes, layers of loss, memory, nostalgia and politics. 11 villages in the former districts of Jaffa, al-Ramlah, Gaza, Hebron have been selected on this basis, and the artist located the sites with help from researcher and writer Noga Kadman. She travelled to the destroyed villages to produce new images of what remains of these different places. Memories of Imagined Places intends to investigate the reality of what is there now, compared to the collective memory of this particular place and images are presented alongside narrative texts, contained within the same frame. The texts stem directly from conducted interviews with the young people, and they are both accounts of oral history as well as projections of desire. Each of the participants received a smaller version of the image, which they selected of their village. The image is in black and white and has been produced in the darkroom for them to keep.
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Size : 54.5 x 84cm
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Material : 11 Photographs and text .
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Location : Alhoash Gallery
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Date of work : 2010
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