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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021

April 9th 2021

In the past week, we’ve seen Belfast ignite again.
Almost 20 years ago, Esther Shalev-Gerz spent time in a marginalized Dublin neighborhood.


“In November 2003, Esther Shalev-Gerz developed Daedal(us) a night-time labyrinthine journey through Dublin’s North East Inner City an historic neighbourhood of deprivation then on the brink of regeneration. Conceiving of Daedal(us) as fundamentally dependant on the participation of the neighbourhood’s citizens Shalev-Gerz negotiated with householders to house vast projectors, others to host projected images on the facades of their buildings and then others to agree to their homes or business properties being photographed. In a district that is undergoing rapid transformation and regeneration, the wandering, remembering, and reclaiming may produce new kinds of mazes-like journeys and future memories.”