Dvora Morag: Collecting Time

Dvora Morag's oeuvre is characterized by a tension between continuity and fragmentation, and between construction and deconstruction. In her works she explores how identity is defined by the memories that accumulate within objects. Indeed, memory is a recurring theme in her work – which includes installations, sculptures, and paintings – alongside the domestic sphere. In several of her works Morag depicts the splendor of material existence; in others, intimate domestic objects become a desolate landscape.

These works suggest chaotic or traumatic occurrences, whose true nature, however, cannot be ascertained. The artist's inspiration for these works is taken from her personal home and from photographs that document the destruction in Palestinian and Israeli homes during Operation Protective Edge.

The voyeurism in Morag's works is linked to daily life in Israel and carries unmistakable political implications in reference to the forceful invasion of the intimacy of the home – in this case the home of a Palestinian family. The image of the peeking Israeli soldier raises ethical questions regarding the nature of the gaze directed to the suffering of the Other.