Michal Heiman
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Michal Heiman (Hebrew: מיכל היימן, born in Tel Aviv) is a Tel Aviv-Yafo based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown Archive (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1-4 (M.H.T).[1] Her work bears on issues of history, human and women's rights, trauma, and memory, as well as an examination of the photographic medium, using reenactment, installation, archival materials, photographs, film, and lecture-performances.[2]
Heiman teaches at the
Artistic career
In 1997, Heiman represented Israel at
Heiman has also exhibited in venues such as the University of Melbourne Museum of Art; Le Quartier Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quimper, France; the Jewish Museum, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China, and others.
Heiman brings her critical voice to bear on issues of history, while engaging with human rights and more specifically, women's rights, exploring and questioning the ability of visual tools to penetrate traumatic experiences through different tactics and pre-enactments, as well as examine the photographic medium, its therapeutic potential, and its role in the struggle for social justice. Her enactment and installation works, archival materials, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas.
From 2019 to 2020, Heiman exhibited work in the United States, focusing on her growing archive of narratives and histories of marginalized, pioneering, and revolutionary women, first with Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2020 in Washington, D.C., and then with Hearing in Los Angeles, California.[2]
Activism
Heiman has been active as a women's right advocate for many years. In 2015, she founded the organization Women in Academia to protect and advance women's equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own, which advocates for gender equality in various academic institutions.[2]
Personal life
Heiman has two children, Leigh (26) and Emily (22).
References
- ^ Ellie Armon-Azoulay (2009-07-30). "Archive of a 'Photographer Unknown'". Haaretz. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ^ a b c d "Michal Heiman". RawArt Gallery. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
External links
- Official website
- Michal Heiman, RawArt Gallery
- Roi Boshi, "Michal Heiman: Winking and Attacks on Linking", Fotograf 13, no. 24, Prague
- Dr. Michal Ben Naftali, "I Am Not Here: On Michal Heiman's Radical Realism"
- Omri Herzog, "A Report to an Academy – On Michal Heiman's Through the Visual: A Tale of Art that Attacks Linking, 1917-2008"
- Danielle Knafo, "Creative and Clinical Transformations of Trauma: Private Pain in the Public Domain", Israel Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1 (4), pp. 533–555
- Dr. Ariella Azoulay, "Critical Image: Michal Heiman", Le Qartier, Center of Contemporary Art, Quimper
- Prof. Elisa Carandina, La cura dell'accidentale: Forme di racconto di sé e dell'altra nella poesia ebraica e nell'arte israeliana contemporanea. Archivio di studi ebraici, Napoli, 2021.
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