Gal Amiram Gottlieb
Research-based visual artist working across photography, collage, video, and artist publications.
Ida’s Travel to the Holy Land
Ida’s Travel to the Holy Land is a photographic installation inspired by the travel journal of Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858), an Austrian traveler and writer who journeyed through Palestine in the nineteenth century.
The installation pays tribute to an overlooked historical figure while challenging the male-dominated narratives of exploration, history, and conquest often reproduced through landscape photography. By combining landscape imagery with textual references, the work examines feminism, colonialism, anti-heroism, and the conventions of landscape representation.
Installation view
Photographic prints: 275 × 118 in.
Donkey figure: 63 × 78 × 4 in.
Floor: inkjet prints
Donkey figure: foam, fabric, and spray paint
Ida: inkjet print
2016
