Dafna Amira

Hotel Room, 2022

Donated by the Lucie Rozenbaum Foundation to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's art collection

Material: Color photography, Inkjet print on archival photographic paper

Size: 186X149

The photographs are constructed as forensic scenes. They lack identifiable human presence, yet they are filled with evidence indicating past human presence through remnants of action.
I describe such phenomena as 'accidental installations' or 'occurrence sites'—spaces that have encapsulated the presence that once existed within them. The surface and the way the space has been organized over time reflect those who were involved in 'setting it up', but the narrative explaining the organization remains untold. These phenomena are characterized by the tension between randomness and staging—in this sense, the photographs become a scene where the search for "truth" provokes doubts. The composition in which reality is arranged offers a complexity of perspective, embodying both what is visible and what is hidden from view, thus turning the spaces themselves into storytellers.