{"id":39992,"date":"2021-01-14T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benyaminiceramics.org\/?page_id=39992"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T10:50:26","slug":"totemism-today-ariel-hacohen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benyaminiceramics.org\/en\/ceramic-galleries\/past-exhibitions\/2020-2\/xyzt-material-investigations-group-exhibition-n\/totemism-today-ariel-hacohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Totemism Today | Ariel Hacohen"},"content":{"rendered":"
The work "Totemism Today" is a collage of archival photographs of scientific documentation of archaeoligical artifacts.\u00a0 These were scanned by Hacohen and combined on the computer as a "totem".\u00a0<\/p>\n
Modern photographic archives are the back up of historical writings using objective finds that are not hierarchial (photographs), whereas the totem in tribe culture has a different function: the imaginary carved images symbolize myths of the group and hold meanings that are religious and supernatural.\u00a0 \u00a0In "Totemism Today" the digital collage has a different motivation for a collective image creating a united, visual spinal column.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pigment archival print, painted wood<\/strong><\/p>\n Archival images by courtesy of the Archaelogical Institute of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The work "Totemism Today" is a collage of archival photographs of scientific documentation of archaeoligical artifacts.\u00a0 These were scanned by Hacohen and combined on the computer as a "totem".\u00a0 Modern photographic archives are the back up of historical writings using objective finds that are not hierarchial (photographs), whereas the totem in tribe culture has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38779,"parent":38880,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n