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Erasure: Fazal Sheikh : The Erasure Trilogy - Vol. I: Memory Trace, Vol. II: Desert Bloom, Vol. III: Independence / Nakba, Hardback Book

Erasure: Fazal Sheikh : The Erasure Trilogy - Vol. I: Memory Trace, Vol. II: Desert Bloom, Vol. III: Independence / Nakba Hardback

Edited by Liz Jobey, Shela Sheikh

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The Erasure Trilogy explores the anguish caused by the loss of memory—by forgetting, amnesia or suppression—and the resulting human desire to preserve memory, all seen through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict.

Memory Trace, the fi rst book in the trilogy, depicts the ruins caused by the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: portraits of those traumatized by violence, devastated landscapes and fragments of buildings.

This visual poem suggests the irreparable loss of a lingering past that augurs a painful and diffi cult future.

Tracing the ironic consequences of David Ben-Gurion’s dream of settling the Negev and making the “desert bloom,” the aerial photographs in Sheikh’s Desert Bloom reveal the myriad actions that have displaced and erased the Bedouins who have lived in the desert for generations.

Here we see the extreme transformation of the landscape through erosion, mining, military training camps, the demolition of villages and afforestation.

Through Sheikh’s lens the desert becomes both an archive of violence and a record of human attempts to erase it.

Independence | Nakba consists of sixty-six diptychs — one for each year since 1948 — pairing people from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, and of gradually increasing age.

The double portraits query the relations between Israelis and Palestinians before the founding of the Israeli State (each image depicts either someone who lived in Palestine before the founding of the Israeli State, or someone whose ancestors did).

Desert Bloom Notes, the essential companion reader to Desert Bloom, explores the historical and contemporary clues along the shifting surface of the desert, and what lies hidden, sealed within Sheikh’s aerial landscapes of the Negev.

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