Nurit Gur Lavy Karni - Private Papers
Nurit Gur Lavy Karni - Private Papers
| Author | Nurit Gur Lavy Karni |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Sternthal Books |
| ISBN | 9789655974768 |
| Idea Code | 260021 |
‘Private Papers’ is an artist book by Nurit Gur Lavy Karni, which delves into her grandmother's private journal. Through erasure and concealment, the book exposes the contrast between personal suffering and a national ethos that demanded lives of absolute conviction – creating a powerful deconstruction of the Zionist movement, one which considers its dark underbelly, and the hard price its early adherents paid personally. Gur Lavy Karni scanned and printed the original pages, and gave them to her 97-year-old mother, to erase the words of pain she feared would be exposed to foreign eyes. These censored pages, alongside a family photograph, were then re-scanned, transferred to photographic etching plates, and printed. The diary was written between 1926 and 1935, after Sarah Kafri emigrated from Russia to Mandatory Palestine. The text exposes a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the image of the stoic pioneer, and the figure that emerges from these pages—one marked by sorrow, loneliness, and heartbreak. Kafri was the niece of Eliezer Kaplan, the namesake of Kaplan square - where over the last two years people have gathered to resist the current government of Israel, and its unrelenting war.
| 168 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Hebrew/English |
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