Shimon Attie Quotes

• I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

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  Thinking, Today, Kind

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• There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.

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  People, Community, Missing

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• My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

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  Reflection, Opportunity, Meditation

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• I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

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  Community, Use, Whispering

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• Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.

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  Mean, Visible

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• I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

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  Media, Use, Site

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