Shimon Attie

Website/Supporting Gallery:
http://www.jackshainman.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=2

Shows/Exhibitions:
2008 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Mediatheque Louis Aragon, Martigues, France
The DeYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
2006 “New Work”, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2005 “The History of Another”, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2004

Shimon Attie described his work, Between Dreams and Memories, as "peeling back the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath." In the project titled "Between Dreams and Memories" Attie interviewed people on the Lower East Side of New York City. He then wrote down excerpts of these interviews and set up a laser to transcribe the memories of the residents across buildings in the city.
In a more recent installation, shown above, Attie projected black and white slides on to ancient buildings and walls, such as the Coliseum.
Attie's work immediately reminded me of John Reuter's work.
"Reuter's most recent images are digital collages constructed from nineteenth-century portraits that he found in thrift shops and combined with backgrounds from Ellis Island and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Where he sought Deteriorated rooms." (Kathleen Thormond Carr)
Thye both had this same idea of taking the dream like memories of the past, and bringing them back to the present. They did so by placing these photographs, and words in their original environments.
I found it interesting that one artist chose words, and the other chose photographs. They were both equally successful in their endeavours.
The more I see artist's such as Attie, Reuter, and Novak use projections to show their work, the more I want to do this with mine. If not now, then at some point in the near future.