"THIS FOOTBALL SEASON, Uuri 1 ANY SANDWICH FACING PAGE: A pair of scanograms from Dor Guez's The Sick Man of Europe: The Architect dier's life, as well as introductory text, Guez's piece lets viewers experience the Ottoman Empire's transforma- tion into the Republic of Turkey as a much older Kemal looks back on the young architect's life. Following the end of World War II and the death of President Ataturk, Kemal P. never works as an architect. "Kemal is an important subject, but he is not somebody who would be [spotlighted] by a lot of people Haines says. "He was an architecture student in the late 1930s and was con- scripted into the Turkish army in the 1940s. "He had exciting ideas in an excit- ing time during the history of Turkey but not much materialized for him, although he was speaking to a moment of hope and promise. His story is one that people can relate to:' Exhibited in the Department of Education and Public Engagement (DEPE) Space, where learning and conversation about complex social issues related to Detroit communities are encouraged, the piece shows how written history often clashes with the personal stories of individuals — here, exhibit components blur the categories of perpetrator and victim, soldier and citizen. "With the mixed aesthetic tools included in this installation, I think visitors also are prompted to consider their own experiences:' Guez explains. "I believe it is a sensual as well as an intellectual experience. "The process started five years ago, when I participated in the Istanbul Biennial, and I worked with the archi- tect for a few years:' Guez, the son of a Jewish-Tunisian father and a Christian-Palestinian moth- er, relates to both religions and often explores issues affecting minorities. "I experience religion as a cultural practice so I practice both Judaism and Christianity:' says Guez, founder of the Christian Palestinian Archive, which holds scans of early 20th-century doc- uments of the worldwide Christian- Palestinian community. "My installations combine diverse modes of video and photographic practices. The work raises ques- tions about contemporary art's role in narrating unwritten histories and re-contextualizing visual and written documents:' Guez, in his 30s and the youngest department head at the Jerusalem academy, has been represented through exhibitions in more than 25 museums worldwide. Those institutions include the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Boston. The artist, who earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts (concentrating on photography) from Bezalel, holds master's and doctoral degrees from Tel Aviv University. His research projects have been devoted to archives from the region. Guez hopes The Sick Man of Europe series, exploring how wars left their marks on artists who stopped creat- ing once they became soldiers, will encourage viewers to consider how religion, nationalism, culture and mili- tarism influence each other. "A great part of my project relates to questions of forming a nationality in the Middle East so I believe it relates to both Islam and Judaism in diverse ways:' he says. Haines has been impressed by the use of story and storytelling devices in this exhibition. Joining the artist in Israel and Detroit to map out the arrangement of exhibition segments, she also has taken note of Guez's ear- lier installation devoted to an Israeli soldier. Haines learned about MOCAD while working on a project at the Shanghai Biennale, which opened in 2012. While setting up the Pittsburgh Pavilion, she connected with people setting up the Detroit Pavilion. "I had worked with Jens Hoffmann, MOCAD's curator-at-large who also is deputy director of the Jewish Museum in New York:' Haines explains. "I talk- ed to him about Dor's series, and he suggested I get in touch with MOCAD. "I've done a lot of work that has to do with bringing together places that are seemingly different from each other. For China, I worked with an artist to bring one person's items for an estate sale so viewers could under- stand the history of the city through what one person accumulated. 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