SEARCHING FOR M.

"SEARCHING FOR M"

“Searching for M” unfolds as a visual inquiry into the realm of the spectral, the repressed, and the unspoken. The series stages a dialogue with absence and presence, where blurred figures wander through abandoned industrial spaces—apparitions that echo Derrida’s notion of the hauntological, suspended between memory and erasure.These sites of neglect are not merely architectural remains; they become psychic landscapes, metaphors for fractured subjectivities and for the unresolved tensions haunting the social periphery. Rendered in unsettling, almost “unnatural” colors, the images dismantle the boundary between documentation and imagination, between the real and the phantasmatic.At the center of this spectral narrative stands the recurring figure of the “young girl,” a ghostly presence that conjures Freud’s idea of the return of the repressed. She embodies both desire and dread, innocence and threat, opening a fissure through which what has been silenced or denied insists on visibility.Through this interplay of ruin, spectrality, and memory, Searching for M constructs a haunted cartography of Israeli society—where unhealed wounds, social margins, and suppressed histories reappear as shadows that refuse to vanish. The photographs do not simply document a place; they stage a psychic and cultural drama in which the invisible becomes tangible, and the ghosts of the past continue to inhabit the present.

M was and is my late sister.