Michal Heiman
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Michal Heiman (Hebrew: מיכל היימן, born 1954) is a prominent Israeli artist.[1] She is an interdisciplinary artist (installation artist, painter, photographer and video artist), curator, writer of M.H.T exams and a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Beit Berl College of Art as well as the Tel Aviv University Faculry of Arts.
For over two decades Heiman has been formulating new relations between the object of art, the subject and speech, developing exchange relations between the practice of art and that of the psychoanalysis, including her series "Photographer Unknown", "Lying Women", "What's on your mind", "Holding","I Was There", "Photo Rape", and the video series "Attacks on Linking" as well as "Daughtertype".
In 1997 Heiman represented Israel at "Documenta X", Kassel, Germany. At the Otteneum building, she first operated her Michal Heiman Test No. 1 (M.H.T no.1), inviting viewers to participate in her test, along the lines of the Thematic Apperception Test, a personality test used by psychologists.[2] Visitors participating in the test responded to photographs taken mostly by unknown photographers.[3] Michal Heiman Test (M.H.T) no. 2, intended for women, was first operated at "Le Quartier" Center for contemporary Art, Quimper, France, in 1998.
Heiman is known for her lectures on the British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and on the French artists Claude Cahun and Sophie Calle.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] 1978-1979
Studied photography at Hadassah College Jerusalem (1978-9).
[edit] 1982-1984
She was the student of Yair Garbuz, Rafi Lavi and Michal Na'aman at 'Hamidrasha' (Beit Berl), Art Teachers College, Ramat Hsharon, studied painting, sculpture and video. In between her studies she worked (1982) as an assistant to renowned photographer Avi Ganor.
[edit] 1984-1990
In the years 1984-1990 she started to exhibit her large paintings and simultaneously worked as a freelance photographer (portraits, fashion, album covers), mainly providing photographic support to newspaper editor and writer Adam Baruch.
[edit] 2000-current
On 8.12.2005 Heiman opened her first New York solo exhibition entitled "I Was There". Andrea Meislin gallery, the introductory stated: "Through the years Heiman has collected and taken photographs from a variety of sources ranging from known 19th century paintings to anonymous current newspapers. Using these photographs as backdrop, Heiman incorporates text and her own portrait to create new meanings. The result is a fusion of past and present, word and image. These pictures address artistic, cultural, national and psychological issues. As a result, they lend themselves to multiple readings, encouraging the viewer to give free rein to his or her imagination." Ariela Azoulay was the author of the exhibition essay.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Danielle Knafo, Living With Terror, Working With Trauma: A Clinician's Handbook, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, p567. ISBN 0765703785
- ^ Ariella Azoulay, Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, MIT Press, 2001, pp109-110. ISBN 0262511339
- ^ Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums, McGill-Queen's Press, 2001, p34. ISBN 0773521747
[edit] External links
- Michal Heiman on artfacts.net
- Michal Heiman on Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC
- Michal Heiman photos on Tel Aviv's Dvir Gallery auctions.
- "What's On Your Mind" Heiman's prints from artnet.com.
- New York Times Art Review 'Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art' with Michal Heiman.
- Michal Heiman /.com official contact website.
