Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Alicia Shahaf
An interview by and
, curator
, curator
I think my personal history had influence on my artistic approach long before I went to school at Camera Obscura. I was born in Argentina in a marxist, atheist and very intelligent family. Culture and art were a supreme value. Judaism was in the background, but we treated it as a fact and not as something that affected our lives. When I was 10 my family decided to move to Israel. It was a family decision, not political or zionist issue. I learned a new language, new customs, I discovered my connection to Judaism- I realized that I belong to a people that has a history, a language and idiosyncrasy, beside the fact I was born in Argentina. What impressed me most in this new