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DIASPORA: Homelands in Exile by Frederick Brenner

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

By Shane Hulbert
Fine Art Photography Studio Coordinator
RMIT University

French artist Frederic Brenner’s current show at the Melbourne Jewish Museum actively interrogates the notion of Sacred and Religious belonging, with a focus on identifying Jewishness. The series of black and white images, categorised by location, have been captured over 27 years, and is a result of investigations of Jewish culture and sacred sites in over forty countries. The show is ultimately a visual chronicle of social histories, of cultures, of faith, of belief and of people.
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