Dissolving Myths

Haim Maor

1980

Photograph of wall with a mannequin to the left, posters with Hebrew text and an illuminated triangle on the wall, and a flag to the right.
Maor was a member of The Common Factor: Kibbutz, a group of artists who were interested in criticizing long-held Zionist and socialist beliefs and myths, at a time when many felt that the kibbutz movement was in the process of collapse and dissolution. Maor has written that as a member of Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuchad, he felt that the reality he lived in “was not congruent with the banners still being waved” around him. Dissolving Myths was an expression of his desire to expose the slogans and symbols he had grown up believing in as “empty signs.” A stylized Hebrew letter ק (kof) appears above the texts and relates to the words on the three panels on the right, which all begin with that letter.

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Courtesy of the artist.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 10.

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