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  • Return:Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019)
  • Michal Heiman (bio)

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Figure 1.

Michal Heiman, Anisa Ashkar (b. Acre, 1979), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2015. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 2.

Michal Heiman, Ora Cohen (b. Acre, 1966), photographer, performing artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

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Michal Heiman, Lital Arielly (b. Ashkelon, 1984), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 4.

Michal Heiman, Mask: Plate 34, by Dr. Hugh W. Diamond, ca. 1855, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Michal Heiman, Camea Smith (b. Ramat Gan, 1992), artist, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 6.

Michal Heiman, Dr. Reuven Barak (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1953), Chinese medicine practitioner, lecturer, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 7.

Michal Heiman, Emily Heiman (b. Tel Aviv, 1997), student of Theatre and Literature, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 8.

Michal Heiman, Ahuva Pinkas, (b. Rishon le-Zion, 1936–2017), Art Gallery Director, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 9.

Michal Heiman, Said Abu Shakra (b. Umm el-Fahem, 1956), founding director of the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Figure 10.

Michal Heiman, Merav Michaeli (b. Petah Tikva, 1996), Israeli Knesset member, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Michal Heiman
A Pilgrim Woman
Michal Heiman

Michal Heiman is an artist, curator, theoretician, and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1–4 (M.H.T.s). She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984). Her enactment and installation works, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas. She teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. In 2015, she founded the Women in Academia Organization to protect and advance women's equality in the academy. Her project Return/Asylum: A New Community of Women, 1855–2019 is to be exhibited in Washington, D.C., and Los Angles during 2019–2020.

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