Renana Neuman

Temporarily Removed

Temporarily Removed is an ongoing media installation project that addresses what is missing (or purposefully removed) from historical and cultural narratives when museums and collections are created and systematized. The project focuses on different aspects of memory-making and who has authority over it, using historical and ethnographic displays as materials to examine. In Daydreaming, a statue is contemplating its life choices and possible futures by daydreaming of other places. The video was shot at the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem (formerly the Palestinian Archeology Museum) as well as at the Met Cloisters. Weaponizing Vulnerability was shot at The Prehistoric Man Museum in Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch, Israel, and the Museum of Natural History, NYC. Artifacts from the two museums come together to contemplate the meaning of freedom and the possibility of escape.

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