Creator Bio
Penny Hes Yassour
b. 1950
The work of Israeli multimedia artist Penny Hes Yassour has appeared in solo exhibitions, including Mental Maps—Involuntary Memory (Documenta X, Kassel, 1997) and UnseenScene (10th Letter) (Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2003). She received the Prize of the Minister of Culture (Israel, 2003). Yassour lives at Kibbutz En-Harod Ihud and teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Mental Maps—Involuntary Memory
Mental Maps depicts mirrored images of a 1938 German railway map made from rubber and pigment. The left panel contains two lines of text that read “North is West” and “[I am imprinting it down…