Last week I went to see “Attacks on Linking”, an exhibition on the fascinating Israeli artist Michal Heiman at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion in Tel Aviv. Michal Heiman is concerned with such issues as memory, repetition, making links, deconstructing them, psychoanalysis, the past and the present, and the relation between the artist and the viewer.

This is an image from Michal Heiman’s series called “Book Spines”, where Heiman has scanned real books together with parts of her own body.

Through this work, Heiman immortalizes the books and the persons they once belonged to.

These pictures are part of a series where Heiman juxtaposes different images of women and the question in Hebrew “What are you [the subject in the photo] thinking?”

Michal Heiman often uses photos which were taken by unknown photographers in order, as she explains “to speak about photography from its inception, in social, political and personal contexts.”

Quotes are taken from this article by Kobi Ben-Simhon, where you can read more about Michal Heiman.

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