Other Artists

Freda Guttman
Postcards from the Promised Land
$10

This amazing object doubles as both a seemingly innocuous accordion-style folded postcard set you would buy in any number of tourist locations and a biting and powerful conceptual art project. Guttman has collected eight images of the transformation of the Abu Ghniem Mountain in Palestine from an open and forested mountainous area into an enclosed and fenced off illegal Israeli settlement. Each card shows the steps through which the mountain disappears and settlement grows. On the back of the cards is a chronology of events and the story of the land as told through Israeli government documents. Guttman is a longtime Montreal-based activist and artist.

8 full color cardstock postcards attached in a single strip
unsigned