The Blind Triptych
2022
Installation: 270 x 400 x 24 cm, Archive (wood, 12 paper labels: 120 x 400 x 24 cm), 3 inkjet prints, 160 x 120 cm
Edition: 1/4 + 1 AP (archive not limited)
For over thirty years, Michal Heiman has developed work in the performing and visual arts that borrows from diagnostic and psychoanalytic methods psychanalysis, through which she denounces systems of historical and contemporary oppression, towards women in particular. In The Blind Triptych, she combines fragments of past photographic works, her own and those created by others (such as Blind Woman by Paul Strand). The filing cabinet placed bellow the triptych references the artist's working method, as well as it emphasizes connections between verbal and visual texts as well as different time periods. This work is part of an ongoing project, Radical Link– A New Community of Women, which creates a dialogue between communities of anonymous, marginalised and recognized women in the 19th century between the between the 18th and 20th Century (such as those involuntary committed to psychiatric lunatic asylums) and those today.
Julie Jones is a curator at the photography department of the Musée
National d’Art Moderne-Centre Pompidou.