Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019)

Abstract

Return:Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019) Michal Heiman (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Michal Heiman, Anisa Ashkar (b. Acre, 1979), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2015. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 459] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Michal Heiman, Ora Cohen (b. Acre, 1966), photographer, performing artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 460] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 3. Michal Heiman, Lital Arielly (b. Ashkelon, 1984), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 461] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 4. Michal Heiman, Mask: Plate 34, by Dr. Hugh W. Diamond, ca. 1855, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 462] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 5. Michal Heiman, Camea Smith (b. Ramat Gan, 1992), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 463] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 6. Michal Heiman, Dr. Reuven Barak (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1953), Chinese medicine practitioner, lecturer, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 464] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 7. Michal Heiman, Emily Heiman (b. Tel Aviv, 1997), student of Theatre and Literature, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 465] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 8. Michal Heiman, Ahuva Pinkas, (b. Rishon le-Zion, 1936–2017), Art Gallery Director, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 466] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 9. Michal Heiman, Said Abu Shakra (b. Umm el-Fahem, 1956), founding director of the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 467] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 10. Michal Heiman, Merav Michaeli (b. Petah Tikva, 1996), Israeli Knesset member, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist. [End Page 468] Michal Heiman A Pilgrim Woman Michal Heiman Michal Heiman is an artist, curator, theoretician, and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1–4 (M.H.T.s). She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984). Her enactment and installation works, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas. She teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. In 2015, she founded the Women in Academia Organization to protect and advance women's equality in the academy. Her project Return/Asylum: A New Community of Women, 1855–2019 is to be exhibited in Washington, D.C., and Los Angles during 2019–2020. Copyright © 2018 University of Pennsylvania Press